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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

the year on which the 20-year period 2025-2044 is centred, as stated in Table 4.5 the best-estimate finding is that the 2025-2044 period is going to be the first 20-year period, in which an average warming of 1.5ºC is attained. 2 of the Paris Agreement as “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC”.

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Rightwing Authoritarianism vs the Environment

Legal Planet

Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule. As one example , the successful populist leader in the Netherlands “said that climate action was an ‘unaffordable madness’ and that – once in office – the party would put the national climate law and the Paris Agreement ‘straight through the shredder.’”

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Will UN Climate Talks in Azerbaijan Deliver on Finance and Emission Reductions? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Here’s what’s on the agenda at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and why it matters.

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One Last Climate Warning in New IPCC Report: ‘Now or Never’

Inside Climate News

Greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 to limit global warming close to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit), as targeted by the Paris Agreement, the report says. degrees Celsius (2.7

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IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words

Environmental News Bits

C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement – as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark report by the world’s most senior climate scientists. by Keith Baker (Glasgow Caledonian University) Earth could exceed 1.5°C

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Singapore Publishes Eligibility List Under the International Carbon Credit Framework

Clean Energy Law

The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation. The Eligibility List for a given host country will be established under the corresponding implementation agreement.

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Samsung pledges to remove smartphone plastic packaging by 2025

Environmental News Bits

As Samsung unveils a new sustainability plan, LG has pledged to set emissions targets that would make it adhere to the Paris Agreement’s stretch goal. Read the full story at ZDNet. Read more →