Catégorie Climate change
Politico for leader building a sustainable future – Planning for the breach
By LORRAINE WOELLERT 05/20/2022 12:02 PM EDT THE OVERSHOOT — What if we don’t make it? Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world agreed to limit — or at least try to limit — global warming to 1.5° Celsius. But we’re approaching that horizon now, and chances are pretty good that we’ll breach it. The Intergovernmental Panel […]
Preparing for Climate Overshoot
May 18, 2022PASCAL LAMY Humanity’s continuing failure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions has substantially increased the likelihood of global warming exceeding 1.5°C within the coming decades. That means we must start exploring a wider set up options for mitigating the worst consequences and managing life in a warmer world. PARIS – The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel […]
Les eurodéputés s’orientent vers un renforcement de la taxe carbone aux frontières
Clément Solal, à Bruxelles 18/05/2022 L’AGEFI Quotidien / Edition de 7H Un premier accord a été approuvé mardi au Parlement européen. Une étape majeure, mais de nombreux sujets controversés restent à trancher dans les prochaines semaines. De longs mois de négociations parfois houleuses, souvent laborieuses, mais, à la clé : un accord. Les députés de la commission Environnement (Envi) […]
Climate geoengineering must be regulated, says former WTO head
Pascal Lamy to lead commission exploring how methods to tackle global heating could be governed Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Countries must urgently agree a way of controlling and regulating attempts to geoengineer the climate, and consider whether to set a moratorium on such efforts, as the danger of global heating exceeding the 1.5C threshold increases, the former […]
Captage du carbone, géo-ingénierie… Une commission mondiale se penche sur l’impact du dépassement climatique de 1,5 °C
Un groupe indépendant d’anciens dirigeants de pays du Nord et du Sud, présidé par Pascal Lamy, recommandera une stratégie pour réduire les risques liés à une hausse supérieure à l’objectif le plus ambitieux de l’accord de Paris. Par Audrey Garric C’est un seuil qui est associé au maintien d’un « avenir vivable » et à une question de « vie ou de […]
Former policy chiefs warn EU over hunt for non-Russian fossil fuels
By Reuters • Updated: 04/05/2022 – 11:40 By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS -The European Union must avoid locking itself into years of dependence on fossil fuels as it races to replace Russian oil and gas with supplies from other countries, 11 former EU policy chiefs have said in a letter to the bloc’s current leadership. The European Commission will this month unveil […]
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