338 ppm đ
Humanity finds itself on a giant ship heading for catastrophy. You can contribute to alter the course of that ship, or turn a blind eye.
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So far, rich countries have pledged just $788.8m to the UNâs Loss and Damage fund. Thatâs 44 US cents for each of the 1.8 billion citizens in the Climate Vulnerable Forum nations: the sum total of our âcompensationâ for the disruption, disaster and death we have caused.
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the carbon level has reached 426.68 parts per million. Well over scientistsâ so called âsafeâ limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading towards oblivion.
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Heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least a millennium after net zero is reached.
âThe thing is, if we delay net zero â up to 30 years and even longer â those impacts are only going to get worse. Weâre already locked into some, but the longer we leave net zero, the worse itâs going to be.â
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The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found.
Despite their promises, governmentsâ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year.
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When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.
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Two key questions at the heart of Cop30:
1ď¸âŁ What can the world do to stop global heating accelerating further and faster?
An overwhelming majority of people â 89% globally â are concerned about the climate crisis and want action.
2ď¸âŁ Can it be done in time to prevent unstoppable catastrophe?
The evidence of climate breakdown is gathering fast: the record-breaking Hurricane Melissa that devastated Jamaica last month, temperatures climbing above 50C in the Middle East, and ocean temperatures soaring. Scientists have warned that the first of a series of âtipping pointsâ already appears to have been reached.
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Gates vs Reality
Gates: Funds are very limited, so the delegates at this monthâs climate summit in Brazil should direct money away from ânear-term emissions goalsâ towards climate âadaptationâ and spending on poverty and disease.
Reality: The net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
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More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop-un-climate
The political distortion of net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate the primary cause of our overheating planet â fossil fuels.
Instead of focusing on economic incentives to encourage the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, climate policies are heavily reliant on feelgood ânature positiveâ solutions that aim to neutralise carbon emissions by essentially planting trees instead of reducing industrial emissions.
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The USâs super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the worldâs poorest 10%.
At one end, the wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV.
At the other, a citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice.
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Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.
In his only interview before next monthâs Cop30 climate summit, AntĂłnio Guterres acknowledged it is now âinevitableâ that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with âdevastating consequencesâ for the world.
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No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity, research has found.
Most banks that have recently updated their climate policies have weakened them, according to the research by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Coal use hit a record high around the world last year despite efforts to switch to clean energy, imperilling the worldâs attempts to rein in global heating.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/global-use-of-coal-hit-record-high-in-2024
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.
Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean âsinksâ that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster.
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The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.
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Death tolls and the billion-dollar losses from wildfires have stacked up around the world, so too have the rising temperatures. It is unambiguous and it is clear climate change is playing a role. These arenât just bigger fires, theyâre fires occurring under increasingly extreme weather conditions that make them unstoppable.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/earths-wildfires-growing-in-number
The hope that followed the signing of the Paris climate agreement in 2016 has long gone as the global community has failed utterly to rein in emissions, which have headed remorselessly upwards ever since. And there is little sign of this changing anytime soon.
Fossil fuel corporations are on track to nearly quadruple, by the end of this decade, the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects.
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The worldâs oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown.
In the report, all of the other six breached boundaries â climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows, and novel entities â showed a worsening trend.
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The latest planetary health check from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a brutal reminder of how close the Earth is being pushed beyond repair. Seven of the nine planetary boundaries are now breached. Yet progress on clean energy shows whatâs possible. With political will, cooperation can still avert the worst of the climate crisis.
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While many countries have committed to a clean energy transition, many others appear to be stuck using a fossil-fuel-dependent playbook, planning even more production than they were two years ago.
If all of the planned new extraction takes place, the world will produce more than double the quantity of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with holding global temperature rises to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.
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