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  1. New study in Nature Comms: Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges

    "We show that countries’ climate pledges require approximately 1 billion ha of land for removals. For over 40% of this area, the pledges envisage the conversion of existing land uses to forests."

    #netzero #LULUCF #ClimatePledges #Forests #ClimateCrisis #CarbonDioxideRemoval

    nature.com/articles/s41467-024

  2. Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in #GlobalOilAndGasExpansion

    The #US and the #UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘#hypocrisy’ on #ClimatePledges

    ‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the #petrostates label?

    The US’s quiet rise to the world’s biggest #FossilFuel state
    theguardian.com/environment/ar

    #ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp

  3. “What far too few leaders seem to grasp (prefer not to grasp?) is that every delay means an ever-steepening challenge. Canada has the widest emissions gap among the countries UNEP surveyed — a 27 per cent gap between policies in place and international commitments. The U.S. logs the next widest at 19 per cent.” #climatechange #energytransition #climatecrisis #climatejustice #climatepolicy #climatepledges nationalobserver.com/newslette

  4. Business as usual.

    ' But Dan Cohn, global energy transition researcher at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said that the oil industry’s climate plans should not be taken at “face value”.

    “They have left no doubt that their pledges were deployed for cynical political purposes, only to be ditched when they no longer suited the industry’s strategic position,” he said.” '

    #OilCompanies #ClimatePledges #Lies #Profiteering #ClimateChange

    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

  5. ❌ Dozens of world’s largest firms ‘failing’ to deliver climate pledges, report finds

    Companies such as Samsung, Amazon and Nestlé are on course to miss their own targets to combat global warming and are making “misleading” claims

    #climatechange #globalwarming #climatepledges

    nationalworld.com/news/environ

  6. CW: COP27 latest developments

    After a long night of negotiations, talks have run into an extra day between the nearly 200 countries at the UN's COP27 summit in Egypt. They're aiming to try to reach an agreement on the next steps for tackling climate change, but there are deep divisions, largely between rich and poor countries.

    Here's a breakdown of what's gone on so far:
    #cop27egypt #COP27 #climate #climatepledges