By Paul Rincon | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59277788 A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases. The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts …
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Max Roser | https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies Instead of making fossil fuels more expensive many governments do the opposite. They subsidize them. Having access to reliable and affordable energy is important to people, so it’s understandable that governments support energy access. But if these subsidies support the consumption of fossil fuels it comes with a large downside, air …
1 November 2021 | Damian Carrington | Paul Torpey | Original Article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/01/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts From the seemingly inexorable increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the rapid growth in green energy Polar bear stranded on shrinking Arctic sea ice Composite: Kt Miller / Getty / Guardian Design The problem: rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere The …
Jonathan Watts | 31 Aug 2021 | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/01/up-to-half-worlds-wild-tree-species-could-risk-extinction Global study calls for urgent action to prevent ecosystem collapse, with farming the biggest cause of die-off Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction, posing a risk of wider ecosystem collapse, the most comprehensive global stocktake to date warns. …
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01 Sep 2021 | Victoria Masterso | Original Article: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/unicef-children-climate-risk-index/ Almost 90% of the world’s children are highly exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution. Image: REUTERS/Omar Sobhani Water scarcity, air pollution, disease, heatwaves and cyclones are among the climate risks facing the world’s children, finds UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index. Young people are more …
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by Hannah Ritchie | March 19, 2021 | Original Article: https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food#licence Summary The climate impact of diets are usually compared in terms of greenhouse gases that are emitted today. But this misses a hidden cost: the carbon opportunity costs of agricultural land. If we were not using this land to grow food, it would be …
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ZEKE HAUSFATHER | 08/10/2021 | Original Article: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-the-new-ipcc-report-says-about-when-world-may-pass-1-5c-and-2c The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) is the first major IPCC review to specifically focus on when the world might pass the 1.5C and 2C warming levels. AR6 uses a combination of historical observations, climate models and an updated estimate of climate …
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Higher confidence, compounded extremes – and high seas that will persist for millennia. by BOB HENSON | AUGUST 9, 2021 | Original Article: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/08/key-takeaways-from-the-new-ipcc-report/ Torching a landscape already desiccated by record heat and severe drought, the McKay Creek Fire threatens the town of Lytton, British Columbia, on June 30, 2021, the day after Lytton recorded …
29 April 2021 | ZEKE HAUSFATHER | Original Article: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached Media reports frequently claim that the world is facing “committed warming” in the future as a result of past emissions, meaning higher temperatures are “locked in”, “in the pipeline” or “inevitable”, regardless of the choices society takes today. The best available evidence shows that, on …
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20 July 2021 | Fiona Harvey | Original Article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/20/emissions-record-high-by-2023-if-green-recovery-fails-says-iea Worldwide energy body warns more must be done to help developing countries give up fossil fuels Global greenhouse gas emissions are likely to rise to record levels in the next two years, as governments fail to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic. Emissions will …
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by Hannah Ritchie | February 09, 2021 Original Article: https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests Summary Shortly after the end of the last great ice age – 10,000 years ago – 57% of the world’s habitable land was covered by forest. In the millennia since then a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests – …
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