Energy and Emissions after COVID
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
What trajectory of global energy consumption and carbon emissions can we expect as the world starts to recover from the COVID pandemic in the years ahead?
Tag: greenhouse gas emissions
The Changing Climate of the EUP and Beyond
By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org
Some Arctic climate experts, such as Peter Wadhams, think a huge amount of methane could be released from the region within the next 20 years due to warming Arctic Ocean waters.
Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets.
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
The Breakthough Briefing Note on "Carbon budgets for 1.5 & 2°C", released March 2, explores some of the myths and realities about the Paris Agreement targets and the associated carbon budgets, and what it would really take to achieve them.
Analysis: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
The end of 2020 marked the moment, under the Paris Agreement’s “ratchet mechanism”, when nations were supposed to formally submit more ambitious commitments for cutting their emissions.
The Economic Superorganism: Excerpt
By Carey W. King, Resilience.org
In the context of the energy and economic narratives, who needs more willpower? Do our political leaders need “political will” to constrain the choices for both public and private energy company investments?
Bigger Cuts for Manchester – in its Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Steady State Manchester Team, Steady-State Manchester
The point also cannot be made often enough that though challenging, this budget is unjust. By continuing to emit even at these lower rates, countries like the UK are saying to the countries of the global South – we’ll continue to use your just share of permissible emissions until the point at which the world as a whole has to have stopped emitting.
The Coronavirus-Climate-Air Conditioning Nexus
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
The severe heat is driving almost all social gatherings and group activities into enclosed, air-conditioned spaces. Getting together these days in the cool indoor world can dramatically raise the risk of coronavirus infection.
As Warming Approaches 1.5°C, Talk of a Carbon Budget for the Paris Targets is Delusional
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
There's a lot of delusional talk about how much "carbon budget" (or new emissions) are allowable that would still keep global heating to the Paris target of 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C).
Year 2020: Last Chance to Avoid Rebound into Carbon Chaos
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
The decisions made during the remainder of this year – a mere 6 months – to recover economically from the COVID-19 crisis, are likely to determine the practical actions set in motion for the next 3 years, in terms of controlling carbon emissions, and thence the course of the climate crisis up to 2050... and beyond.
California Leads Multi-State Lawsuit Against Trump Admins’ Clean Car Rollback
By Dana Drugmand, DeSmog Blog
A coalition of 23 states plus the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging the Trump Administration’s rollback of the Obama-era clean car standards.
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
Estimations for the percentage of greenhouse gases emitted by the buildings sector vary wildly. But any assessment should include both the embodied energy involved in constructing new buildings and the energy costs of heating, cooling and lighting buildings.
The Only Story
By Courtney White, The Grass Canoe
The date was Thursday, July 25th – the hottest day ever in Europe, part of a record-setting heat wave. Climate change, in other words. By the time we reached the airport the next morning for the long journey home, all the stories had melted in the heat and merged into just one story, one anguished question: Where indeed, Mr. Gauguin, are we going exactly?