CORSIA: World s biggest plan to make flying green too broken to fix
A new UN-brokered deal for aviation will not require airlines to offset flight emissions for another six years and will cost them less than 1% of operating costs by 2035, a DW analysis has found.
The scheme will not include private jets or military planes like this one
When Austrian judges let Vienna Airport build a third runway in 2018 overruling a lower court that had previously blocked the expansion on environmental grounds international climate agreements did not stand in their way. World leaders had not pledged to limit air traffic, the airport argued, but rather to grow it in a climate-neutral way.
Louise Igoe had always assumed she wanted to do Medicine. She decided that studying Science with a view to doing graduate entry Medicine was the ideal route for her.
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IMAGE: Neil Adger, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change. view more
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen O Brien for changing the paradigm of climate change action, previously confined to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, by folding in the concept of adaptation to unavoidable impacts.
While earlier editions of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards have distinguished contributions to climate change science from the realms of modelling, physics or economics, this year s prize recognizes the contribution of the social sciences. Specifically, the committee has selected three researchers who have pioneered the study of how social conditions and culture shape our vulnerability to climate change and our ability to adapt, in the words of the award citation.
To Stave Off Climate Change, the World’s Wealthiest Must Cut Carbon Emissions by 97%: UN Report Rachel Cormack
Climate change often seems like an insurmountable problem, but the solution is, and always has been, relatively simple: humans need to reduce carbon emissions. Now, a new report by the United Nations is shedding light on who needs to step up, and the richest 1 percent are at the top of the list.
The Emissions Gap Report 2020, which was published by the UN earlier this month, provides a snapshot of projected greenhouse emissions in 2030, and the levels needed to avoid a worst-case scenario. The report indicates that the difference between the two also known as the “emissions gap” is bigger than ever.