What keeps us from stepping back?
What keeps us, individually and collectively, from stepping back, and curtailing our lifestyles and economies to such a degree that they fit perfectly with stable climate dynamics?
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Major corporate climate pledges are misleading
The corporate climate pledges of 24 of the worlds’ largest ‘climate leader’ companies are misleading and their strategies insufficient. Long-term net-zero pledges distract from the fact that climate pledges for 2030 go less than halfway to what is required to stay below the 1.5°C temperature limit.
Environmental concern: what makes people care about the climate?
A new study analyzes the factors that drive environmental concern among Europeans in an effort to understand how we can bolster popular support for combatting climate change.
COP27 outcomes: no more hope for the climate
The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 outcome results in an agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. When, and how much, money will reach the affected countries remains unclear. No decisions were made to effectively limit climate change.
LNG overshoot next big threat to the climate
All the LNG panic plans lead to yet another big threat to the climate: overshoot of the remaining carbon budget, thus leading to even higher temperatures.
Zero waste prevents 20% of global methane emissions
Introducing zero waste systems in cities around the world would be one of the quickest ways to reduce global heating, finds a new report. The waste sector accounts for 3.3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and a fifth of global methane emissions.
Fridays for Future demand climate reparations for Global Climate Strike
Fridays for Future is going out on the streets across the world to demand climate finance and reparations for Loss and Damages. This is in time for the upcoming UN Climate Summit, COP 27 in Egypt.
How to use smart data to protect ecosystems
A data-based global platform builds a community that supports people and organizations who want to protect the natural world. Technology and nature coexist in an app to learn, connect, and have a verifiable impact on nature.
Climate gap widens as emissions continue to exceed pledges
A huge climate gap between aspirations and reality in emissions of greenhouse gases makes climate change head in the wrong direction.
How this small country is big in deforestation
A new report by WWF assesses the quantity and provenance of the Netherlands’ import and use of eight deforestation and conversion risk commodities: soy, palm oil, maize, coconut, cocoa, coffee, beef & leather, and timber.