A new climate strategy is gaining ground among companies to achieve their climate goals: insetting. This means reducing CO₂e emissions or increase carbon removals within a company’s own value chain (scope-3). This strategy can help identify additional potential reductions. And it can replace financing external reductions in carbon. projects to compensate residual emissions (offsetting). Though…
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Countries should take cooling targets
While we passed the 1,5° Degrees, as the IPCC predicted an overshoot, and reductions will bring temperatures down later, I believe that in addition to emission reduction targets, which only take effect after years, countries should additionally make temperature reduction commitments and start cooling their countries and cities. For example greening EU’s urban areas would…
IPCC: global failure and hope
This weekend the Synthesis Report was adopted in Interlaken, Switzerland, of 6 recent IPCC reports on science, impacts, mitigation, landuse and oceans. It is a summary agreed by governments that sums up what governments can do to prevent the worse effects of climate change. The Synthesis will also be used in this years’ climate summit…
Climate policy under Biden: homework & international rallying
With Biden, the United States can give global climate policy the necessary stimulus, and fill in the political vacuum if it gets its own house back in order. New US President Joe Biden cited climate as one of his priorities. Now that he can have a majority in the Senate with 50 Democratic senators and…