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Tortuous progress: Key takeaways from COP28

Envirotec Magazine

remains viable will require total commitment to a range of far-reaching measures, including full fossil fuel phase-out, massive investment in nature, transformation of global food systems, and carbon removal on a massive scale.” Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow.

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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28

DeSmogBlog

Nature-based solutions” is one of the only phrases linked to agriculture to be mentioned in the COP cover text. of the Paris Agreement, which would provide the structure for a global carbon credit market. We can expect a similar turnout at this year’s COP, too.

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The Chilling Question About This Week’s Record Heat Wave

DeSmogBlog

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. Smithsonian Magazine has a small snapshot of what’s been going on as temperatures rise.

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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

Business Green

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. Mitigation.

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'Climate security is energy security': Alok Sharma urges world to 'break dependency on fossil fuels'

Business Green

But principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It Nobody should imagine that Russia's invasion can justify a wave of new large-scale fossil fuel infrastructure in a world that wants to limit global warming to 1.5C," he wrote. "We

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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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The future of fossil fuels could be decided in Dubai

The Verge: Energy

A major United Nations report from 2018 charted out what it would take to reach that goal: reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course. And yet the Paris Agreement manages to omit the words coal, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuels.