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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. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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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. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

But we can and must take actions now to save lives, limit harms and ensure climate action is aligned with sustainable development goals. It is also a critical part of their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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MAS Launches Singapore-Asia Taxonomy

Clean Energy Law

The Taxonomy is also important for industries that struggle with technological limitations in achieving a 1.5°C–aligned For example, maritime vessels typically struggle to meet existing “green” thresholds as zero or low-carbon fuels are still in their early stages of development. incompatible with a 1.5°C–aligned

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Existing Technologies Can Help World Meet Agricultural Methane Targets By 2030

PA Environment Daily

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit.

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Report from COP22: Day 1 in Marrakech

Law Columbia

Over the next two weeks, COP22 will bring together delegates from 197 countries to discuss implementation of the Paris Agreement, reached last December. Ségolène Royal reported the “excellent news” that 100 countries have ratified the Paris Agreement, leading to rousing applause from delegates. In her opening address, Ms.