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Opinion: At COP28, climate finance takes centre stage

Opinion: At COP28, climate finance takes centre stage

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE),  site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Photo credit: Frank Peters / Alamy. By Kashmala Kakakhel COP28 will be judged on its solutions to questions of climate finance – for mitigation, […]

Viewpoint: No change in fossil fuel production plans

Viewpoint: No change in fossil fuel production plans

By Jeremy WilliamsThere’s a giant cognitive dissonance at the heart of global climate politics. Almost every country now agrees that it has work to do to prevent climate disaster. The age of scepticism is over and every major economy has set carbon targets. At the same time, those governments all want to maximise fossil fuel production. According to the recent […]

WMO: Greenhouse gases will keep rising

WMO: Greenhouse gases will keep rising

Photo credit: iStock. By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. The agency said that in 2022 the global average concentrations of […]

Only a fraction of global companies meet UN climate targets

Only a fraction of global companies meet UN climate targets

By Anders Lorenzen Analysis by the Net Zero Tracker has established, that even though half of the world’s 2,000 biggest listed companies have set targets to reach net-zero emissions by the middle of this century, only a fraction have met the targets set out in the United Nations (UN) guidelines. Net Zero Tracker, an independent data consortium including Oxford University, […]

Earth911 Inspiration: Climate Change Knows No Borders

Earth911 Inspiration: Climate Change Knows No Borders

The world is one interconnected system of systems, and the Global North cannot expect to sit unscathed while island nations drown. Recognizing that we live in one world, that we are one species sharing a common destiny, is the key to understanding how to address the Climate Crisis: together. Today’s quote comes from former Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to […]

Extreme Weather Summer Scorecard – How Did You Fare?

Extreme Weather Summer Scorecard – How Did You Fare?

Remember when summertime meant living was easy? Summer used to be the season of backyard barbecues, trips to the beach, and vegetable gardens full of fresh produce. Those things aren’t gone, but these days summer seems more likely to be about dealing with heat waves, Category 5 hurricanes, and wildfires. It’s not just your imagination that things are getting worse. […]

We should not sugarcoat the reality of climate impacts

We should not sugarcoat the reality of climate impacts

Sir David King addresses the audience at the Net Zero Festival. Photo credit: Anders Lorenzen. By Anders Lorenzen  The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy […]

The United Nations warns about environmental tipping points 

The United Nations warns about environmental tipping points 

Melt Ponds in the US Arctic. Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / PDTillman, Public Domain, via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen Nearly a month out from the crucial COP28 climate summit, United Nations (UN) climate scientists have warned. The world is rapidly heading towards a cascade of environmental ‘tipping points’ which, if they were to materialise, could cause irreversible […]