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As Nations Embrace Paris Agreement, World’s Existing Fossil Fuels Set to Exceed its Goals
As Nations Embrace Paris Agreement, World’s Existing Fossil Fuels Set to Exceed its Goals On September 21, 31 countries, including Brazil and Mexico, ratified the Paris climate agreement at a United Nations event in New York City. They joined the U.S., China, and 27 other nations which had previously committed to the agreement, bringing the total to 60 and […]
Germany About To Make Big Changes To Its Renewables Policy
Germany About To Make Big Changes To Its Renewables Policy On Earth Day, some 171 nations formally signed the Paris climate agreement; it was a mostly symbolic, though meaningful next step. The document now awaits individual ratification and, more specifically, ratification by 55 countries representing 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. When and from where those […]
Why Canada’s Oil Industry May Never Be the Same
Why Canada’s Oil Industry May Never Be the Same Never is a long time. The dictionary definition is, “at no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever.” In the volatile oil and gas industry, those who try to look that far into the future and predict anything with certainty are invariably […]
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary Climate change is on a fast track, a surprisingly fast, very fast track. As such, it’s entirely possible that humanity may be facing the shock of a lifetime, caught off-guard, blindsided by a crumbling ecosystem, spawning tens of thousands of ISIS-like fighters formed into competing gangs struggling for survival. […]
Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes
Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes Reduced coal use in China will have a positive impact on poor air quality. Image: V.T. Polywoda via Flickr The link between global economic growth and emissions growth has been further weakened as greenhouse gas levels show no increase for the second year in succession. LONDON, 18 March, 2016 – The world continued […]
Does Methane Threaten Life?
Does Methane Threaten Life? The question of whether methane (CH4) in the atmosphere is a threat to life is extraordinarily complex and generally not well understood. But, yes it is a serious threat, very serious and horribly real. Okay, but don’t scientists understand this, and why aren’t they speaking out? They are speaking out but […]
G20 Countries Must Improve Credibility of Their Paris Climate Pledges, Report Warns
G20 Countries Must Improve Credibility of Their Paris Climate Pledges, Report Warns The credibility of countries’ climate pledges agreed in Paris in December particularly those of the G20 nations must be strengthened, warns a new report out today. While much attention has been given to scrutinising the level of ambition of each country’s intended nationally determined contribution […]
Climate Insurgency After Paris
Climate Insurgency After Paris NASA. In December of 2015 – the earth’s hottest year since recordkeeping began — 195 nations met in Paris to forge an agreement to combat global warming. The governments of the world acknowledged their individual and collective duty to protect the earth’s climate — and then willfully refused to perform that […]
Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype? It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page non-agreement was praised by diplomats, but denounced by well-known critics as […]
