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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions.

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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial. climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn. McKinsey & Company. Retrieved from [link].

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Why Climate Litigation in South Africa Matters

Law Columbia

The country is the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter on the African continent , ranked in the top 15 globally, with higher per capita emissions than many developed countries. It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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International Trade and “Embedded Emissions” after KlimaSeniorinnen: The Extraterritoriality of Climate Change Obligations

Law Columbia

A key and underrated aspect of the recent triad of climate rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is that the ECtHR has brought to the fore the role of trade-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in states’ carbon footprints. Embedded Emissions and International Trade Production is a crucial source of anthropogenic GHGs.

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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

A Greener Life

At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the Paris Agreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction. million tonnes, rising to 1.025 billion tonnes by 2031-2032. billion tonnes by 2029-2030.