Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Comparison of historical and future warming projections from a continuation of the 1970-2023 linear trend (top left), the IPCC AR6 assessed warming range for SSP2-4.5 (top right), the CMIP6 multimodal mean and range for SSP2-4.5 (bottom left) and Hansen et al 2023 (bottom right). Blue dots and red dashed lines show observations and trends, while the black lines and yellow shading show model ...
State of the climate: 2024 now very likely to be warmest year on …
Jul 24, 2024 · Very likely to be the warmest year on record. With half the year of data now available, Carbon Brief has determined that there is now an approximately 95% chance that 2024 will beat 2023 and be the warmest year on record, based on Copernicus/ECMWF’s ERA5 dataset. (Berkeley Earth separately estimated a 92% chance in their June update.). By looking at the relationship between the first six ...
COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in …
Nov 2, 2024 · NBSAPs. COP16 was the first biodiversity summit since nations signed a landmark agreement in late 2022 called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which aims to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. It is often described as the “Paris Agreement for nature”. As part of the GBF and its underlying documents, countries agreed to submit new national biodiversity pledges ...
Analysis: China’s CO2 falls 1% in Q2 2024 in first quarterly drop …
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2024 in the first quarterly fall since the country re-opened from its “zero-Covid” lockdowns in December 2022.
Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
Oct 24, 2023 · FALSE: ‘The electric Volvo C40 needs to be driven around 68,400 miles to cut carbon’ Newspapers have also continued to reuse estimates of the climate impact of Volvo’s EVs, published in 2021, which, as with those from VW, have been repeatedly corrected.. For example, a July 2023 article in the Daily Mail wrote: “Volvo revealed in 2021 that the emissions from the production of electric ...
Analysis: Record drop in China's CO2 emissions needed to meet …
Feb 22, 2024 · China’s CO2 emissions continued to increase in 2023. According to preliminary official data, China’s total energy consumption increased by 5.7% in 2023, the first time since at least 2005 that energy demand has grown faster than GDP.. With coal consumption growing by 4.4%, our analysis shows CO2 emissions increasing by 5.2% – at the same rate as GDP – highlighting energy-intensive ...
Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US …
Mar 6, 2024 · The ‘Trump effect’ on US emissions. US greenhouse gas emissions have been falling steadily since 2005, due to a combination of economic shifts, greater efficiency, the growth of renewables and a shift from coal to gas power.. Since taking office in early 2021, Biden has pledged under the Paris Agreement to accelerate that trend by cutting US emissions to 50-52% below 2005 levels in 2030 ...
Explainer: The high-emissions ‘RCP8.5’ global warming scenario
Aug 21, 2019 · A sizable portion of recent studies on future climate impacts have focused on a future warming scenario called “RCP8.5”. This high-emissions scenario is frequently referred to as “business as usual”, suggesting that is a likely outcome if society does not make concerted efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Explainer: Desertification and the role of climate change - Carbon …
Aug 6, 2019 · Defining desertification. In 1994, the UN established the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as the “sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management”. The Convention itself was a response to a call at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to hold negotiations for an international legal ...
Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since ...
Jan 3, 2024 · West Burton in Nottinghamshire closed in March, then Drax in Yorkshire closed in April, followed by Kilroot in Northern Ireland at the end of September.. Only Ratcliffe in Nottinghamshire, operated by utility firm Uniper, remains operational. It plans to close in September 2024, ahead of the government’s ambition to end coal power by October 2024.. While the UK saw a major coal-to-gas ...