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Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere

Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half – $3.3 trillion – went towards fossil fuel expansion. In 2023, banks financed $705 billion in fossil fuel financing with $347 billion going to fossil fuel expansion alone.

Alors que les enquêtes soulignent régulièrement les préoccupations des Français·es pour les crises du climat et de la biodiversité, une réelle prise en compte de ces enjeux tarde toujours du côté politique. «Jusqu’à quand ?», s’interroge l’écologue Philippe Grandcolas.

Overexploitation and habitat loss pose extinction threats for migratory fish, birds and others, worldwide

Small modular reactors (SMRs) have been the subject of endless hype in recent years but in fact, no SMRs have ever been built, none are being built now and in all likelihood none will ever be built because of the prohibitive costs. SMRs are defined as reactors with a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) or less with serial factory production of reactor components (or ‘modules’). No SMRs have been built, but dozens of small (<300 MW) power reactors have been built in numerous countries, without factory production of reactor components.

The effect of increasing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on global average surface air temperature might be expected to be constant, but this is not the case. A study published in the journal Science shows that carbon dioxide becomes a more potent greenhouse gas as more is released into the atmosphere.

Without a phase out of fossil fuels, by 2100, 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide will be at high risk of total or partial shutdown from extreme weather events — a total of 16,245 hospitals. Without a phase out of fossil fuels, all of these 16,245 hospitals will require adaptation, where suitable. Even with this enormous investment, for many, relocation will be the only option.

Donderdag start in Dubai een - alweer cruciale - VN-klimaattop. Begrippen als INDC’s, emissiehandel en loss and damage zullen ons dus weer twee weken lang om de oren vliegen. Tijd voor een opfrissing van ons klimaatjargon.

Pour accompagner la parution de la dernière livraison de la revue GREEN, nous publions en avant-première une série d’articles qui discutent la notion de « croissant fossile ». Après une pièce de doctrine de Pierre Charbonnier, une perspective de Jean-Baptiste Fressoz et l’introduction signée Paul Magnette, nous publions ce texte de fond. Vous pouvez commander le numéro papier de la GREEN à cette adresse.

To prevent catastrophe, these countries must stop new extraction projects n: Just 20 countries, led overwhelmingly by the United States, Canada and Russia, are responsible for nearly 90 percent of new greenhouse gas emissions threatened by new oil and gas fields and fracking wells planned between now and 2050. If these extraction projects are allowed to proceed, they will lock in climate chaos and an unlivable future.