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Fighting climate change could save the world trillions of dollars

sudshr47 May 24, 2018

On the White House lawn in June 2017, President Donald Trump announced that “we’re getting out,” referring to his plan to pull the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement — a deal he considers bad for the American economy.

But new research suggests that Trump is sorely mistaken.

The climate agreement, which is intended to limit the severity of climate change, will likely be a substantial benefit to most of the world’s economies, argue researchers in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Not placing limits on climate-warming carbon emissions, however, would be costly for nearly everyone. Read more…

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We could cross a global warming red line by 2022

sudshr47 January 31, 2018

Within the next five years, global average surface temperatures may temporarily breach a key guardrail set out by the Paris Climate Agreement, according to a new report from the U.K. Met Office.
The report warns that global average temperatures…

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Greenhouse gas emissions just went the wrong way, again

sudshr47 November 13, 2017

After years of promise, we’re going backwards on greenhouse gases.

Global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to rise by 2 percent in 2017, following a flat line between 2014 and 2016.

These results come from researchers at the Global Carbon Project, showing an unexpected increase in emissions from the world’s top carbon emitter, China. It seems complacency from governments is a lot to blame, in missing our climate goals.

“The slowdown in emissions growth from 2014 to 2016 was always a delicate balance, and the likely 2 percent increase in 2017 clearly demonstrates that we can’t take the recent slowdown for granted,” Robbie Andrew, the report’s co-author, said in a statement. Read more…

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Fragile climate talks begin in the wake of Trump’s trashing of Paris Climate Agreement

sudshr47 November 6, 2017

During a year of climate confrontation, the world has closed ranks around the Paris deal struck in 2015.

Momentum was “irreversible”, said a statement released by the German, French and Italian leaders in the hours after Donald Trump said he would leave or “renegotiate” the accord.

In the lead up to the annual U.N. talks in Bonn, which kick off on Monday, rhetoric from all nations has been uniform — confident, calm, defiant. Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel will attend the meeting in solidarity.

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