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FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the Duvha coal-based power station owned by state power utility Eskom, in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, 18 February, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa’s government on Tuesday released a revised climate change policy document for public comment, significantly reducing the upper limit target for harmful carbon emissions seen over the next decade, senior officials said.
The draft Nationally Determined Contribution document, which updates a previous 2015 study, outlines the mitigation, adaptation and financing policies Africa’s worst polluter and most industrialised country will pursue. Once finalised, the NDC will be deposited at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change before November.
Not all UN Sustainable Development Goals are good for the environment, reveals study
A study reviewed existing academic papers on the UN’s global goals and found that 63 of the 169 targets may impact forests either adversely or positively. 4 hours ago The UN’s key areas for global development – known as the SDGs – range from tackling poverty, hunger and sanitation to promoting clean energy, economic growth and reducing inequality. | AFP
Progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals targets, relating to energy and infrastructure, has the potential to be the most damaging to the world’s forest ecosystems, even though there are a greater number of goals that will be beneficial to forests, according to new research.
As the world prepares for the next landmark meeting on climate change, COP26, in Glasgow (November 1 to 12 2021), with most countries racing against time to meet their commitments as per the 2015 Paris Agreement, the UAE will host a crucial meeting on Sunday that will for sure create a momentum towards fulfilling those ambitious goals.
The Paris Agreement aimed to restrict global temperature rise this century to “well below” 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. In November, the UK will be hosting the 26th annual session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, or “COP26”, in Glasgow.
A Green New Deal Is Actually More Affordable in the Long Term Than Fossil Fuels
Protesters gather outside Union Station on March 31, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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With global warming representing humanity’s greatest existential crisis, reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, as recommended by the 2018 report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), should be one of the U.S.’s most urgent priorities. We need a Green New Deal now.
In examining the urgency of this necessity, we must recognize the current state of climate response in this country and around the world. Five years ago, the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted. It was called “historic” because all members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change committed themselves to limiting global warming below 2 and ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2°C) compared to pre-industrial levels