#climatetargets — Public Fediverse posts
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Hybridisation Could Unlock 25 GW of Wind and Solar Across EU Member States, Report Says
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More than 100 UK #datacentres plan to burn #gas to generate #electricity
Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering #climateTargetsWhich bit of #climateCatastrophe is it that people don't understand???
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The brief assesses its potential role alongside the associated risks, offering policy considerations for governments to evaluate renewable hydrogen’s place in broader energy transition strategies.
Key insights from the brief:
💡 Renewable #hydrogen adds value as seasonal storage and peaking capacity.
💡 Co-firing H2 and ammonia in coal and gas plants offers limited emission reductions at relatively high costs. Scaling renewables and grids offer a lower-cost route to reach #climatetargets. 2/x
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At the same time what's up with the UK?
"the share of people concerned about climate change has fallen over the past year, dipping from 68% to 60%.
Support for the UK’s target to hit net zero emissions by 2050 fell even further, plunging from 62% to 46%."
All this while the southern Europe fries under scorching heat wave and forest fires.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/europe-heatwaves-failing-support-climate-action
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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/
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Revealed: the 1,200 big #methane leaks from #waste dumps trashing the planet
The huge leaks of the potent #GreenhouseGas will doom #ClimateTargets, experts say, but stemming them would rapidly reduce #GlobalHeating
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/12/revealed-the-1200-big-methane-leaks-from-waste-dumps-trashing-the-planet
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Advocacy on separate targets in 2040 European climate framework/NDC, by academics, businesses, civil society organisations and research institutions urging the EU to separate emissions reductions, land-based sequestration and permanent carbon removals.
#ClimateTargets #Europe
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2023: A bumper year for Germany’s renewable electricity sector https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/2023-a-bumper-year-for-germanys-renewable-electricity-sector/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #climatetargets #coalpower #Electricity #Germany #RobertHabeck
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A 📆 2022 report from #Inmarsat made the case for #satellite 🛰️ technologies being integral in not only meeting current #ClimateTargets, but actually pushing them forward.
The report estimated that #satellites could help save up to 5.5 billion tonnes of #CO2 a year. This amounts to roughly one-sixth 📊 of emissions cuts needed to reach #NetZero by 📆 2050. https://www.independent.co.uk/space/rocket-launch-carbon-neutral-inmarsat-spacex-b2285877.html
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Australia: the NSW parliament has voted unanimously to enshrine a 70% emissions cut by 2035 in law. It's so good to see cross-party support for #climateaction
Victoria has a bill enshrining 75-80% emissions reduction by 2035, bring forward net zero to 2045, 95% renewables by 2035. -
Victoria legislating climate targets: Net zero by 2045.
📉 75-80% emissions reduction by 2035,
🌞 65% remewables by 2030,
🌞 95% renewables by 2035.
⚡ 2.6GW of energy storage capacity by 2030
⚡ 6.3 GW by 2035;
🌬️ offshore wind energy targets of at least 2 GW by 2032, 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040.#Victoria #ClimateTargets #Renewables #COP28
https://climateactionmerribek.org/2023/11/30/victoria-legislating-2035-climate-targets-net-zero-by-2045/ -
RT by @EU_ScienceHub: The land use and forestry sector is key to global #ClimateTargets, yet a gap persists between the science and how countries report emissions. A new @Nature study shows assessing #IPCC scenarios nationally shifts mitigation benchmarks.
👉https://iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-2023/mind-gap-caution-needed-when-assessing-land-emissions-in-cop28-global-stocktake
#EmissionsGap🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IIASAVienna/status/1727359812436951095#m
[2023-11-22 16:14 UTC]
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People in Germany doubtful that 2030 #climatetargets will be achieved, from the expansion of #renewableenergy to the growth of #electricvehicles on the country's roads - EY survey
"Without the confidence of the population, it will be difficult to master the switch to renewable energy for mobility, electricity and heat"
