While we passed the 1,5° Degrees on average – IPCC predicted this overshoot – and it takes time for reductions to bring temperatures down later, countries should also have temperature reduction commitments in addition to emission reduction targets. They should start cooling their countries and cities. The European Human Rights Court -in the KlimaSeniorinnen case-…
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Insetting: make climate impact in your supply chain and help meet national targets
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 that compensate residual emissions (offsetting). Carbon…
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…