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Climate Council will create clean jobs and investment opportunities in the state, but a higher target would unlock more benefits and better protect Victorians from worsening climate impacts, the Climate Council says. Today, the Victorian Government announced an emission reduction target of 28-33% by 2025, and 45-50% for 2030 – as well as a plan for how to get there. Previously, the state had a 15-20% emission reduction target for 2020, which was met. Climate Council spokesman Professor Will...

It is virtually impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C, the report said, but that simply means more work has to be done to stop 2°C warming (since the Industrial Revolution). It details an option whereby significant warming — where temperatures rise above 1.5°C — is followed by a “drawdown” where carbon dioxide (CO 2) is sucked out of the atmosphere. These include a significant rise in forest cover, land restoration and soil carbon sequestration. Another method is bio-energy and carbon...

Richard Dannatt Published: 9:53 AM April 25, 2021    General Lord Richard Dannatt takes the salute as Downham Market Royal British Legion held a parade through the town to mark its 90th anniversary celebration in 2012 - Credit: Matthew Usher Born in Essex, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL is a retired  senior British Army officer and member of the House of Lords. He was chief of the general staff between 2006-2009.  He lives just outside of Norwich with his wife Pippa, The Lady Danna...

  Australia must slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 per cent by the end of the decade and get to net zero by 2035 to hedge against the accelerating impacts of climate change. Those startling claims - described by one MP yesterday as "overreaching" - are contained in a new Climate Council report, Aim High, Go Fast: Why Emissions Need To Plummet This Decade. Canberra has pledged to cut emissions by 26-28 per cent by the end of this decade, so a 75 per cent cut would represent almost a ...

Failure is not an option. Australia must radically scale up its climate targets now WillSteffenfortheConversation To contribute fairly to keeping warming well below 2C, we have to cut emissions by 75% this decade – a daunting but achievable task ‘The consequences of breaching 1.5C will be stark. Heatwaves, droughts, bushfires and intense rain events will become more severe. Sea levels will rise, species will become extinct and crop yields will fall.’ Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Imag...

To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. In May 2011, almost precisely a decade ago, the government-appointed Climate Commission released its inaugural report. Titled The Critical Decade, the report’s final section warned that to keep global temperature rises to 2℃ this century, “th...

Further evidence has emerged that the world can no longer hold warming to 1.5 degrees without overshooting the mark and using new technology to scrub the air.

Date Time New report: Australia must triple its climate goal this decade AUSTRALIA must triple its emissions cuts within the next decade and reach net zero emissions soon after to protect Australians from the impacts of accelerating climate change, a new Climate Council report says. As momentum for climate action grows around the world, the Aim High, Go fast: Why emissions need to plummet this decade report explains why all efforts to stabilise the climate system should focus on steps taken in ...

In May 2011, almost precisely a decade ago, the government-appointed Climate Commission released its inaugural report. Titled The Critical Decade, the report’s final section warned that to keep global temperature rises to 2℃ this century, “the decade between now and 2020 is critical”. As the report noted, if greenhouse gas emissions peaked around 2011, the world’s emissions-reduction trajectory would have been easily manageable: net-zero by around 2060, and a maximum emissions reducti...

Feb 5, 2021 STEUBENVILLE — Quinn Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, 515 North St., Steubenville, is observing Black History Month every Sunday in February. “Our theme for Black History Month will be ‘Gearing Up to Move Forward,” explained Terry L. Jennings, committee member. “On the first and second Sunday, (Feb. 7 and Feb. 14) we will celebrate our spiritual heritage by remembering Richard Allen, the founder and first elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist...