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2023 will mark the beginning of the decline in fossil fuels, following the peak of global electricity emissions in 2022, according to a new report released on Wednesday (12 April) by energy think-tank Ember. 

While nations have agreed to a global target aimed at avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, fossil fuel and other greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise when they should be falling.

And there is no formal organisation tasked with making sure individual nations are on track.

“There are no ‘police’ to check; this is a weakness of the process,” climatologist Corinne Le Quere told AFP.

WWF's tool helps to assess how effective proposed Territorial Just Transition Plans are to deliver a truly just transition aligned with the Paris Agreement. It is aimed at policy makers, municipalities, civil society and other partners involved in developing the plans to provide information about what makes a good plan and to enable them to evaluate the quality of the plan as it develops.

Under the Paris Agreement’s “ratchet mechanism” nations were supposed to formally submit more ambitious emissions cutting commitments

Key elements of the EU’s foreign policy funding will be finalised during 'trilogue' talks this week. Raising the climate spending target there could make a vital difference to supporting partner countries to deliver green recovery plans, writes Rachel Simon.

Biden has promised to reenter the Paris Agreement, marking the end of a four-year assault on climate protections under Donald Trump's presidency

The United Kingdom’s Met Office leads the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, which is published every year for the next five years. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned of the challenge to achieve goals from the Paris Agreement as there is a 20% chance the global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius, set for the entire century, could be topped already by 2024.

“We need to grapple with the reality that we’re not going to meet the goals that we’ve talked about.”

The worse news is that many of the world’s biggest emitters aren’t even on track to meet their Paris accord pledges.

With Trump no longer a threat, there is a sense of optimism around what the accord could achieve – but only if countries meet their targets

Just transition describes an intentional shift toward a society in which the economy and the environment can thrive simultaneously,

The economic stimulus needed to overcome the current pandemic requires significant resources. But it comes at a time when we need to accelerate the energy transition, which is currently part of the European Green Deal and will also require an increase in resources. Andrei Marcu at ERCST examines how the transition will be funded, what are …

The Madrid climate conference has reminded us of the urgency of climate action by all sectors of society. 2020 will be a pivotal year for shareholders seeking to hold major fossil fuel companies accountable to the science of meeting the Paris Agreement targets. We urge investors to take up the Oxford Martin principles and expect more, question more, and tolerate less from the fossil fuel companies. These major contributors to global warming must swiftly get on board with climate action—or get out of the way.

La 25e Conférence des parties sur les changements climatiques, ou COP25, doit débuter le 2 décembre prochain à Madrid dans un contexte difficile : délocalisée au dernier moment pour cause d'émeutes au Chili, elle se tient alors que Donald Trump a confirmé le retrait des États-Unis de l’accord de Paris en novembre 2020. Les enjeux sont pourtant considérables, comme le confirme un Atlas de l’anthropocène publié récemment.