Laurence Tubiana 🗣️:"The richest 1% of people in the world are responsible for more GHG #emissions than the 66% at the other end of the scale, yet experience little of the vulnerability to climate shocks causing suffering & death, mainly among poorer people" https://buff.ly/3X8ijqZ
New research from UCL & the International Institute for Sustainable Development suggests that there are now enough sustainable/green energy projects running or in development that no new fossil fuel capacity is required.
As current fossil fuel capacity now degrades/reduces, so green energy capacity can take its place.
This is not how the fossil fuel firms see it, but as emissions keep rising (up 1.1% last year) this must become a crucial pivot point!
Looks like global CO2 emissions finally peaked. Good. But no time to lose: onwards to a rapid descent!
From BloombergNEF via Justin Guay. #co2#emissions#ClimateChange
IEA analysis finds sales of #SUVs hit a new record in 2023, making up half of all new cars sold globally. Experts warn that the rising sales of the large, heavy ICE vehicles is pushing up carbon #emissionshttps://buff.ly/3Km7vhp
Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
The richest 0.1% in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than low earners & 12 times more than average. Income is directly linked to levels of mobility.
In the UK, transport is now the largest source of emissions.
"The #cement industry alone accounts for nearly eight percent of human-caused CO2 #emissions.
The Cambridge researchers approached the problem by looking at an industry that was already well established—steel recycling, which uses electric-powered furnaces to produce the alloy.
Instead of waste being produced, the end result was recycled cement ready for use in #concrete, bypassing the emissions-heavy process of superheating limestone in kilns."
"Major oil companies have in recent years made splashy climate pledges to cut their greenhouse gas #emissions and take on the #climate crisis, but a new report suggests those plans do not stand up to scrutiny.
The US firms Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil each ranked “grossly insufficient” on all 10 criteria."
NREL’s Open-Source Vehicle & Mobility Tools Offer Routes to Reduce Transportation Energy Use, Emissions
Simulation and modeling software helps railway operators model the integration of technologies to encourage transportation decarbonization and move toward a net-zero carbon economy.
"A U.N. tribunal on maritime law said Tuesday that countries are legally required to reduce #GreenhouseGas pollution, delivering a long-awaited opinion sought by small island nations that are on the front lines of #ClimateChange.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea found that carbon #emissions qualify as marine pollution and said countries must take steps to mitigate and adapt to their adverse effects."
" Bill that would make Vermont the first state to have a 'Climate Superfund' takes a key step forward
The #ClimateSuperfund Act directs the state treasurer to work with climate scientists to catalog the damage Vermont has seen due to #ClimateChange between 1995 and 2024 — and what it will cost to adapt to a warmer future with more volatile weather.
If the bill becomes law, #Vermont could start to seek damages in 2027."
"The #Vermont bill doesn’t outline the total amount it would seek from polluting companies.
Instead, it calls for the state treasurer to account for the costs Vermont has incurred because of #emissions from 1995 through 2024 — including future costs from those past emissions. That includes impacts from floods and heat waves, along with losses to biodiversity, safety, economic development and anything else the treasurer deems reasonable."