This year Climate Week NYC is shining a spotlight on industrial decarbonisation. At Climate Group we’re speeding up the net zero transition of the steel industry and creating a market for net zero concrete. We do this by bringing together businesses and building impactful networks through our SteelZero and ConcreteZero initiatives. See More of our coverage of Climate Week HERE The […]
Our dependence on fossil fuels is one of the biggest challenges to overcome in the fight against climate change. But production and consumption of fossil fuels is on the rise, and expected to peak within the next decade. Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation The Conversation In this episode of The […]
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement have increased by 1.0% in 2022, new estimates suggest, hitting a new record high of 36.6bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2). By Dr Zeke Hausfather and Prof Pierre Friedlingstein Carbon Brief The estimates come from the 2022 Global Carbon Budget report by the Global Carbon Project. It finds that the […]
With the federal government promising over US$360 billion in clean energy incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, energy companies are already lining up investments. It’s a huge opportunity, and analysts project that it could help slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% within the decade. Seth Blumsack, Penn State and Lara B. Fowler, Penn […]
In the climate decade, we need to make all new buildings net zero by 2030 and whole lifecycle net zero by 2050 to reduce the impact of the built environment on global emissions. This means accounting for the embodied carbon of the materials and construction processes associated with buildings. But progress in the built environment […]
Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan The Conversation Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators […]
The UK is failing to enact the policies that would put it on track to reach net zero emissions by 2050, according to a progress report by the Climate Change Committee. The head of this expert body, which advises the government on its climate strategy, described the UK’s record on home insulation in particular as […]
Later this month, the SEC will release its “climate disclosure rule,” which could be a turning point for the carbon offset “market,” which is a presently a dumpster fire of accounting fraud, lies, and moral hazard. By Cory Doctorow Pluralistic It’s not clear whether the Commission will actually tackle offsets, and if they do, […]
Two-thirds of countries have now committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions at some point this century. During 2021, the share of large companies with net zero commitments jumped from one in five to one in three. Sadly, few of these net zero targets were accompanied by measures necessary to achieve them. This discrepancy […]
One of the surprises to come out of COP26 was the U.S.-China joint declaration on enhancing climate action through the 2020s. Although the declaration lacked details, it offers a positive sign of progress toward curbing global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because China and the United States are the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse […]
Net-zero emissions pledges to protect the climate are coming fast and furious from companies, cities and countries. But declaring a net-zero target doesn’t mean they plan to stop their greenhouse gas emissions entirely – far from it. Most of these pledges rely heavily on planting trees or protecting forests or farmland to absorb some of […]
At the COP26 summit in Glasgow this week, US president Joe Biden and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen officially launched the Global Methane Pledge. Announced in September, the pledge asks countries to cut their methane emissions by 30% over 2020-30 and agree to stronger reporting standards. In his speech, Biden said “nine countries had signed on” […]
Depending on whom you ask, the COP26 climate summit may seem like the best of times or the worst of times. On the one hand, reports proclaim boldly that limiting global warming to below 2C might finally be in reach. On the other, critics complain that modest improvements on country commitments amount to little more than “blah […]
Climate change is a global problem that knows no national borders. All countries will have to work together and take bold actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrate that their emissions are declining if we are to meet the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 C […]
Each of its carbon-sucking units is the size of a shipping container, yet the world’s largest direct air capture machine – the Orca plant in Iceland – only captures and stores about 4,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year. That’s about three seconds’ worth of global emissions. By Johanna Forster, University of East Anglia and Naomi […]