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How Major Carbon Producers Drive Sea Level Rise and Climate Injustice

Union of Concerned Scientists

Previous attribution research published by my Union of Concerned Scientists colleagues have allowed us to draw causal connections between sources of heat-trapping emissions and resulting impacts, like present day increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, air temperatures, sea levels , ocean acidification , and wildfire burned area.

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Massachusetts’ Freedom to Move Act Can Get Transportation on Track

Union of Concerned Scientists

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021. Fast forward to 2021.

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Operationalizing Climate Science

Real Climate

Where, at the beginning, there was really only one input parameter (the CO 2 concentration) that needed to be coordinated, the inputs have now broadened to include myriad forcings related to other greenhouse gases, air pollution, land surface change, ozone, the sun, volcanoes, irrigation, meltwater etc. 27791-27792, 2020. Fasullo, J.

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China’s carbon peak yet to come

A Greener Life

The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021. on 2020 levels. In 2020, China officially announced its dual carbon goals to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality in 2060.

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All Eyes on Baku: Expectations for Canada at COP29

Enviromental Defense

In short, developed countries committed to providing $100 billion to vulnerable countries every year between 2020 and 2025. We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This is what is known as climate finance. Back in 2009, countries set a finance goal of $100 billion.

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The Pathways Alliance’s Carbon Capture Plans and the Risks to Communities

Enviromental Defense

Oil and gas companies are proposing the widespread use of carbon capture to deal with their increasing greenhouse gas emissions. When a CO 2 pipeline ruptured in Mississippi in 2020 – releasing 41,000 barrels of CO₂ with enough force to create a 40-foot crater – 300 people were evacuated and 45 people had to be hospitalized.

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Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal DEP Permits For CNX Slickville Natural Gas, Shale Gas Wastewater Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

We had hoped in light of the 2020 43rd Grand Jury Report on fracking, scrutinizing PA DEP for its past failures, that the reviews of permits like these without addressing community concerns was a trend that would stop. However, the project implements none of these critical safety measures. “We