#climatetargets — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climatetargets, aggregated by home.social.
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bsky.app/starter-pack... #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #ClimateTargets #EmissionsProgress #EmissionsReduction #GreenhouseGasEmissions #SDG13 #Sustainability #SustainableDevelopment #SustainableDevelopmentGoals
RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:k3ltkncdcfadlbjo25pjaozr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lqcwybh37l23 -
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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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head #UN #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateTargets #GlobalHeating #ExtremeWeather
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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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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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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,”
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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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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
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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/
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp #ToryLies