The EU is on track to meet its 2030 emissions goal thanks to strong progress on renewables.
The EU is “well on track” to reach its 2030 climate targets, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54% emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55% target.
#EU #Emissions #ClimateTargets #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #CarbonEmissions
Can CCS meet Europe’s climate targets? Three projects beset with problems suggest not.
The European Union is betting on carbon capture and storage (CCS) to decarbonise heavy industrial emitters.
High costs, local opposition and technical issues threaten the viability of the EU’s multi-billion euro gamble on CCS to decarbonise heavy industry.
The rapid expansion of the AI industry, led by Nvidia, is fueling concerns over soaring energy consumption and carbon emissions, threatening global climate targets as chip production and data center power usage surge.
#YonhapInfomax #Nvidia #AIIndustry #ElectricityConsumption #ClimateTargets #DataCenters #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=64906
Scholz increases pressure on Commission to delay deforestation law [Advocacy Lab Content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/scholz-increases-pressure-on-commission-to-delay-deforestation-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ChancellorOlafScholz #climatetargets #environment #reforestation
Campaigners sue #EU over ‘grossly inadequate’ 2030 #ClimateTargets
Groups challenging #emissions limits in key sectors including #agriculture, #waste and #transport
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/27/campaigners-sue-eu-over-grossly-inadequate-2030-climate-targets
#ClimateCrisis
BNEF report says that Australia needs to scale up its emission reductions targets from 43% by 2030 – it suggests 71 per cent reduction from 2005 levels by 2035, and it makes clear that the investment and spending also needs to treble, from a record $18 billion in 2023 to around $55 billion a year now and to $83 billion in the 2030s.
#Australia #ClimateTargets
Expressing targets in absolute terms is an improvement over the gameable ways of expressing things we have now
But 2050 is unreasonably far away. Civilization could have collapsed by then, or sooner. There is no safe speed to apply needed changes. Any timeline that is not "now, immediately, without delay" risks politicians saying it's deferable or not their job, or saying that whatever unmetered thing they do in the interim, no matter how feeble, is all that's required to set up future success.
Plus some other nations will not do their part. It matters for everyone to. But everyone must overachieve hugely to cover others' failures.
We need governments to just say "now, highest priority, all hands on deck, all other considerations secondary". Talk of far off dates, with paced action, is just so much spinning of fairy tales and will get us all killed.
#climate #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction #politics #ClimateTargets #ClimateTimelines #carbon
No need for countries to issue new #oil, #gas or #coal licences, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/no-need-for-countries-to-issue-new-oil-gas-or-coal-licences-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other “The world has enough #FossilFuel projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 and governments should stop issuing new oil, gas and coal licences, according to a large study aimed at political leaders.
If governments deliver the changes promised in order to keep the world from breaching its #ClimateTargets no new fossil fuel projects will be needed,”
The #steel sector accounts for 8% of global CO2 #emissions and therefore plays an important role in meeting the world's #climatetargets. Most steel is currently made via the coal-fired blast furnace route (BF-BOF), a highly emissions-intensive process. 1/x
#Netzero U-turns will hit #UK #infrastructure, say government advisers
#SirJohnArmitt urges ministers to act swiftly or risk impeding growth and jeopardising #ClimateTargets
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/16/net-zero-u-turns-will-hit-uk-infrastructure-say-government-advisers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ClimateCrisis #Economy
The Scottish government's collapse over the question of #climatetargets is the first collapse of a government as a result of the "retreat from #climate".
More will follow (e.g. the German government is under significant pressure largely from that front).
https://www.ft.com/content/483d83e4-ba91-4e33-af21-78b4e588186a
Worth a read of the whole article.
“If Canada is going to meet its #ClimateTargets, virtually everything will need to be #electrified. Gas guzzlers swapped for #ElectricVehicles and #PublicTransportation; #HeatPumps put in place of gas furnaces; and renewable energy moving to centre stage as coal, oil and gas power plants are phased out.” https://bird.makeup/users/jvipondmd/statuses/1782774802731974888
Brazil has a long tradition of #industry and vast #renewableenergy resources. The country could thus become a hub for the production of low-emissions hydrogen and related molecules to help meet global #climatetargets. 2/7
Germany on track for national 2030 climate target despite missing EU goals https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/germany-on-track-for-national-2030-climate-target-despite-missing-eu-goals/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2030climatetargets #climatetargets #effortsharing #ESR #Germany
#FossilFuelFirms must plug #methane leaks to meet #ClimateTargets, warns watchdog
Spending to clean up their operations would be equivalent to only 5% of profits made last year, #IEA estimates
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/fossil-fuel-firms-must-plug-methane-leaks-to-meet-climate-targets-warns-watchdog
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #BigOil
What does #Sunak’s plan for new #GasPlants mean for #UK #ClimateTargets?
Critics of changes to the #ElectricityMarket say they over-rely on #FossilFuels and won’t cut #CO2emissions quickly enough
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/what-does-sunaks-plan-for-new-gas-plants-mean-for-uk-climate-targets
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp
The Government didn’t want to publish these #ClimateRisk tables
#CarbonBudgetDeliveryPlan #ClimateTargets
Despite the #Tories’ repeated claims that the UK is a “world leader” in #ClimatePolicy, the risk tables reveal the Government has declared its own policies rely on technology that has “never been deployed at scale”, are “not… possible at current funding levels” and beset with “inherent uncertainties and risk”
https://goodlawproject.org/update/the-government-didnt-want-to-publish-these-climate-risk-tables-here-they-are/
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp #ToryLies
"Revealed: the 1,200 big #methane #CH4 leaks from waste dumps trashing the #planet - The huge leaks of the potent #GreenhouseGas #GHG will doom climate targets, experts say, but stemming them would rapidly reduce #GlobalHeating
There have been more than 1,000 huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane from #landfill #waste #dumps since 2019, the #Guardian can reveal.
Analysis of global satellite data from around the world shows the populous nations of south #Asia are a hotspot for these super-emitter events, as well as #Argentina and #Spain, developed countries where proper waste management should prevent leaks.
#Landfills emit methane when organic waste such as food scraps, wood, card, paper and garden waste decompose in the absence of oxygen. Methane, also called #NaturalGas, traps 86 times more heat in the atmosphere than #CarbonDioxide #CO2 over 20 years, making it a critical target for #climate action. Scientists have said #emissions from unmanaged landfills could double by 2050 as urban populations grow, blowing the chance of avoiding #ClimateCatastrophe"
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klimakrise #GlobalWarming #ClimateTargets
A total of 1,256 methane super-emitter events occurred between January 2019 and June 2023, according to the new data. #Pakistan, #India and #Bangladesh lead the list of nations with the most large leaks, followed by #Argentina, #Uzbekistan and Spain.
