A UN review of action on climate since the #ParisAgreement calls for the end 🚫 of #FossilFuels🛢️without #carbon capture https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66753909 #globalstocktake

Climate breakdown
“There’s a clear message for Australia – we must phase out fossil fuels.”
"Australia, is still approving new coal mines and gas exploration. Carbon emissions? Still climbing... Governments worldwide are failing to cut global greenhouse emissions rapidly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and avoid catastrophic climate change and there is a rapidly narrowing window to act."

https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/minutes-to-midnight-un-warns-world-must-phase-out-fossil-fuels-20230909-p5e3bf.htm
#ParisAgreement #failure #Australia #inertia #FossilFuels #climate #disasters #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateActionNow

Pathetic, really - "‘A critical moment’: #UN warns world will miss #climate targets unless #FossilFuels phased out - Governments failing to cut #emissions fast enough to meet #ParisAgreement goals and avoid #disaster major report says
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There is a “rapidly narrowing window” for governments to move faster, according to the report, as global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 at the latest, and be rapidly reduced from there, to limit temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
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Ani Dasgupta, the head of the World Resources Institute thinktank, noted that the bland tone of the report disguised a catastrophic failure. He said: “The UN’s polite prose glosses over what is a truly damning report card for global climate efforts.

“Carbon emissions? Still climbing. Rich countries’ finance commitments? Delinquent. Adaptation support? Lagging woefully behind. This report is a wake-up call to the injustice of the climate crisis, and a pivotal opportunity to correct course.”
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Emissions are still rising, however, and there is a gap of 20 to 23 gigatonnes of #CO2 between the cuts needed by 2030 to limit global temperatures to 1.5C and the world’s current emissions trajectory.

The report, which was expected next week but was published hurriedly in draft by the UN on Friday, will form the basis of the first “global stocktake” under the 2015 Paris agreement. That process is meant to track countries’ efforts to meet the goals of the treaty.

However, the 47-page UN report does not set out in detail which countries are falling behind, nor does it contain specific recommendations directed at particular countries or regions."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/un-report-calls-for-phasing-out-of-fossil-fuels-as-paris-climate-goals-being-missed

#GHG #GHGEmissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster #ClimateEmergency #Climate #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateDiary #GlobalWarming

#FossilFuel🛢️ giants are still undermining the #ParisAgreement, despite #NetZero pledges
https://www.edie.net/report-fossil-fuel-giants-still-undermining-paris-agreement-despite-net-zero-pledges/

The decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for the #ParisAgreement, - they have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future.

Jefim Vogel & @jasonhickel in @thelancet #ClimateCrisis
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00174-2/fulltext

🇺🇸 The Republican Party left the Paris agreement after the 2016 election. Will they do it again if they win next year?

#usa #climate #ParisAgreement

More Than 60% of the Biggest Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not on Track to Meet 1.5°C Goal, Study Finds

https://www.ecowatch.com/fossil-fuel-companies-paris-agreement-emissions-reduction.html

“Not only did we find the majority of these companies are not currently aligned, but the outlook is also troubling. If recent trends (2010-2018) continue, the companies would produce up to 68% (coal), 42% (oil) and 53% (gas) more than their cumulative production budgets by 2050”

#coal #oil #gas #production #noncompliance #ParisAgreement #goals #lackofoversight #complicitgovernments #bribery #ecocide #careless #profit #machine

The Carbon Cash Machine
Corporate Watch and the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London, published a new report, ‘The Carbon Cash Machine', revealing the dramatic rise in cash earnings of shareholders in Britain’s big 2 oil companies since the Paris Agreement was signed in Decem
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/08/12/the-carbon-cash-machine/
#CentreForClimateCrimeAndClimateJustice #ClimateBreakdown #CorporateWatch #ParisAgreement #TheCarbonCashMachine

The latest #C3S climate bulletin confirmed that the global surface air temperature for July 2023 was the highest on record for any month in the #ERA5 dataset.

🌡️ 1.5°C warmer than the 1850-1900 average, the limit established by the #ParisAgreement.

▶️https://climate.copernicus.eu/july-2023-warmest-month-earths-recent-history?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=ma&utm_campaign=news-CBjulyteaser

July #temperature highlights from the #CopernicusClimate Change Service #C3S

🌡Global average temperature was highest on record for any month
🌡Global July temperature was near #ParisAgreement 1.5°C limit
🌡Heatwaves in many parts of Northern Hemisphere

https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-july-2023?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=ma&utm_campaign=CBjuly23

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. A new report found that the global average temperature was 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level, a key threshold in the Paris climate agreement. This shows that climate change is accelerating, and urgent action is needed to avoid catastrophic consequences. #hottestmonth #climatechange #Parisagreement https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/03/july-blows-away-temperature-records-testing-key-climate-threshold/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

"Australia continues to have one of the highest per capita emission levels in the world. Unlike many developing countries with coral reefs, Australia has the wealth, technology and resources to sharply reduce domestic and exported greenhouse gas emissions. Until this happens, Australia cannot claim that it is doing all that it can to protect the Great Barrier Reef." Prof. Terry Hughes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/02/australia-is-not-being-singled-out-by-unescos-in-danger-recommendation-for-the-great-barrier-reef
#ParisAgreement #Unesco #GBR #coral #bleaching #GHG #FossilFuels

Für den neuen #IPCC -Chef Jim Skea ist klar, dass die Welt das 1,5 Grad-Limit des #parisagreement nicht mehr einhalten kann. Die Regierungen hätten keine Maßnahmen ergriffen, die ehrgeizig genug gewesen seien, um die Ziele des Pariser Klimaabkommens umzusetzen. „Das ist absolut sicher“. Aber: „Egal an welchem Punkt wir uns befinden – die Vorteile, etwas gegen den CO2-Ausstoß zu tun, übertreffen bei Weitem die Kosten, die mit der CO2-Reduktion verbunden sind.“
https://orf.at/stories/3325440/

How secretive #methane leaks are driving #ClimateChange

19 Jul 2022

"There is an open secret in the oil and gas industry and it is feeding the climate crisis.

"Massive methane leaks, known as super-emitter events, have been taking place at oil and gas fields all over the world, from the #UnitedStates to #Turkmenistan. The releases, most of which can be traced to equipment failures, can last for weeks. One outside of a storage facility in #LosAngeles in 2015 hemorrhaged almost 100,000 tonnes of methane — a potent #GreenhouseGas — into the atmosphere over the course of four months.

"In June, researchers at Spain’s Polytechnic University of Valencia, said they uncovered the latest known super-emitter event at an #OilAndGas platform in the #GulfOfMexico . The installation discharged 40,000 tonnes of methane during a 17-day spell in December 2021 — equivalent to 3 per cent of #Mexico’s annual oil and gas emissions. Researchers said the release may never have been known to the public if not for the fact that it was captured by a #EuropeanSpaceAgency satellite.

"While the discharge was caught, it remains challenging to trace emissions of methane, which is colourless, odourless and responsible for more than 25% of the global warming the Earth is experiencing today. Due to its structure, methane traps more #heat in the atmosphere per molecule than carbon dioxide (CO2) making it 80 times more harmful than #CO2 during the 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere.

"As countries develop plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst effects of climate change, experts say it's vital to have a better handle on how much methane is being released into the atmosphere, including from super-emitter events. Cutting human-caused methane by 45 per cent this decade would keep warming beneath a threshold outlined by the #ParisAgreement.

"The big challenge is knowing exactly how much [methane] is being emitted, where it is being emitted and for how long it has been emitted."

Read more:
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-secretive-methane-leaks-are-driving-climate-change

#ExxonKnew #MethaneLeaks #OilAndGasIndustry #OilAndGas #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ExxonKnew #USGovernmentKnew

The world will miss 1.5C #ParisAgreement warming limit warns Professor Sir Bob Watson, former head of the UN 🇺🇳 IPCC climate body https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66256101

Germany 🇩🇪 has cut GHG emissions faster than the UK since the 2015 #ParisAgreement, further undermining the Sunak govt’s claim to global climate leadership. Germany’s #emissions have fallen 17% between 2016 & 2022 while the UK’s 🇬🇧 fell 14% https://www.ft.com/content/3a27be9b-e4b7-4961-bf33-f07734042a96

Future of the human climate niche
and
Quantifying the human cost of global warming

Future of the human climate niche
"All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations have resided in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT). "
"We show that in a business-as-usual climate change scenario, the geographical position of this temperature niche is projected to shift more over the coming 50 y than it has moved since 6000 BP."
"Global warming will affect ecosystems as well as human health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, and economic growth in many ways."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

Quantifying the human cost of global warming
"The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche."
"The worst-case scenarios of ~3.6 °C or even ~4.4 °C global warming could put half of the world population outside the historical climate niche, posing an existential risk"
"The ~2.7 °C global warming expected under current policies puts around a third of the world population outside the niche."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6

#AdaptationInSitu #climate #mitigation #ClimateJustice #Injustices #ethics #food #crops #livestock #mammals #pests #pathogens #disease #mortality #HighTemperatures #hotspots #exposure #FossilFuels #harm #ParisAgreement #HumanClimateNiche #niche #home

Leaving the corridor of life
"We're starting to see the loss of resilience in the Earth system."
Planetary boundaries: scientific advances, Johan Rockström,
Frontiers Forum Live 2023 (27 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfWGAjJAsM
#FossilFuels #CombustionEngine #Energy #Climate #PlanetaryBoundaries #Biodiversity #Biosphere #SafeOperatingSpace #ParisAgreement #Earth #Tipping #HealthThreats #Collapse #Instability #Transition #HotHouseEarth rapid #Decarbonisation #life

Christiana Figueres, former head of UNFCC and a negotiator of the #ParisAgreement has a powerful message about fossil fuel companies. #AlJazeera is of course a good vehicule to deliver that message. It’d be great to hear what the chair of #COP28 in #UAE.

« I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong » https://aje.io/55lqj1 via @AJEnglish

by #MattMace in #Edie

"The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has trawled through more than 3,000 pages of Government updates to provide its annual progress report on the net-zero transition, published on Wednesday (28 June).

"The overarching message makes for grim reading; with the Committee’s confidence that the UK will meet its climate goals 'diminishing' year on year. Indeed, projections for the UK to meet its 2030 goals under the Sixth Carbon Budget and to reduce emissions by 68% as part of the nation’s commitment to the Paris Agreement have 'worsened since last year'.

"The CCC cites a combination of delays that are creating delivery risks across all sectors."

https://www.edie.net/ccc-progress-report-are-any-uk-sectors-on-track-to-meet-net-zero/

#UK #CCC #emissions #NetZero #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #climate #environment #pollution