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That $3 Trillion-a-Year clean energy transformation? It’s already underway.

October 22, 2018

clean energy, global warming, renewable energy

“To keep global warming in check, the world will have to invest an average of around $3 trillion a year over the next three decades in transforming its energy supply systems, a new United Nations climate science report says. It won’t be cheap, but it’s also a change that’s already underway. Much of that investment…

IPCC: Radical energy transformation needed to avoid 1.5 Degrees global warming

October 10, 2018

Sarina Soor

fossil fuels, global warming, methane

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“Without a radical transformation of energy, transportation and agriculture systems, the world will hurtle past the 1.5 degree Celsius target of the Paris climate agreement by the middle of the century, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Failing to cap global warming near that threshold dramatically increases risks to…

Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warnings

September 19, 2018

Sarina Soor

Exxon, gas, global warming, oil

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“In 1982, for example, Exxon predicted that by about 2060, CO2 levels would reach around 560 parts per million – double the preindustrial level – and that this would push the planet’s average temperatures up by about 2°C over then-current levels (and even more compared to pre-industrial levels).” Click here to read more from The Guardian.

1.5 degrees warming and the search for climate justice for the poor

January 19, 2018

Sarina Soor

climate change, climate justice, global warming

“The difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees is ‘a greater likelihood of drought, flooding, resource depletion, conflict and forced migration,’ a new IPCC draft warns. A far-reaching report being drafted by the United Nations’ authoritative climate science panel explores in comprehensive detail the environmental justice, poverty and other human rights challenges facing the world as…