New North Sea Fields: A Reckoning With Climate Pledges
UK plans for new North Sea oil and gas fields may violate climate change promises. Find out how this affects global warming efforts and UK's green goals.
#NorthSeaOil, #ClimateChange, #UKPolitics, #EnergySecurity, #ParisAgreement
https://newsletter.tf/uk-new-north-sea-oil-fields-climate-pledges/
Experts warn that new UK oil and gas fields could be a major setback for climate goals. This decision is being watched closely by countries worldwide.
#NorthSeaOil, #ClimateChange, #UKPolitics, #EnergySecurity, #ParisAgreement
https://newsletter.tf/uk-new-north-sea-oil-fields-climate-pledges/
English – The Conversation | Planting trees to remove carbon can harm the environment – or protect it: study highlights trade-offs by Ruben Prütz, Postdoctoral Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Forest, Uganda. Julie Ricard, Unsplash, CC BYGlobal efforts to limit climate change require deep cuts to carbon emissions. However, global emissions are still growing. Currently, we emit roughly 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use and land use changes every year.
To achieve the targets of the Paris Agreement, which included a long-term commitment to limit global warming to 1.5°C, it will also be necessary to do more than cut emissions. What is also needed is large-scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Any delay in emission reductions increases our reliance on future carbon removal. Yet, carbon removal does not come without trade-offs.
Some strategies to remove carbon are very land intensive. Examples include planting trees, or growing crops that can be used as alternative sources for energy production. This would have to be done at massive scale – across millions of square kilometres of land. In turn, this could have serious biodiversity implications if not carefully managed.
Important biodiversity areas
Carbon removal in biodiversity areas
Towards biodiversity-sensitive planning
#parisagreement #kunming-montrealglobalbiodiversityframework #horizoneurope
Article 2.1(c) of the #ParisAgreement requires financial flows to be made consistent with a pathway towards low #GHGemissions. A new discussion paper evaluates assessment frameworks to track progress toward Article 2.1(c), identifying key trends and gaps:
👉 https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/from-assessment-to-action-mapping-article-21c
It was the gas cutoff due to the Russian war of aggression against #Ukraine which finally got the #EU and most of the rest of #Europe to finally start catching up with #ParisAgreement obligations by accelerating the transition to energy efficiency and #renewableEnergy. They could no longer keep dragging their feet once their own citizens were freezing in the dark.
How might the #Trump and #Netanyahu war of aggression against #Iran paradoxically affect global demand for #fossilFuels? Will those two oligarchs end up unintentionally accelerating the global energy transition and destroying the majority of the oil and gas market?
In the short term, fossil fuel oligarchs may profit, but in the long term, with #OperationEpsteinFury and Trump's war crimes and crimes against humanity against #Cuba compounding the global effect of Putin's repeated war crimes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, it's now undeniable that distributed renewable energy generation and storage are not only necessary for the #climateCrisis, but also for economic stability, #sovereignty, and #nationalSecurity.
Centuries of net-negative emissions are required to secure a safe climate future, two studies suggest
Two new studies conclude that stabilizing long-term #climate risks will require sustained net-negative carbon dioxide (#CO2) #emissions for centuries. Approaching the problem from distinct perspectives—legal and technological feasibility on the one hand, and economic optimization under uncertainty on the other—the research converges on a consistent message:
--> reaching net zero is not enough.
Both studies were led by researchers from the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the #IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program and underline that achieving the #ParisAgreement goals will demand durable commitments to large-scale #CarbonDioxide removal (#CDR) extending far beyond current policy timelines.
Stabilizing #SeaLevelRise and #permafrost thaw demands long-term carbon removal commitments
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-centuries-net-negative-emissions-required.html
Two new studies conclude that stabilizing long-term climate risks will require sustained net-negative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions for centuries. Approaching the problem from distinct perspectives—legal and technological feasibility on the one hand, and economic optimization under uncertainty on the other—the research converges on a consistent message: reaching net zero is not enough.
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Climate Advisory Opinions and the Emergence of General Principles
On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, outlining the States’ obligations under treaty and customary international law. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights publishe
#ClimateChange #ParisAgreement
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/climate-advisory-opinions-and-the-emergence-of-general-principles/
Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study
An acceleration in human-caused #GlobalWarming could see the #ParisAgreement’s 1.5C limit breached before 2030, a new study suggests.
The paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that, over the past decade, the planet has been warming at its fastest rate on record.
The authors isolate the trend of human-driven warming in the long-term global temperature record, removing the influence of natural factors, such as El Niño, volcanic eruptions and solar variation.
They find that the world had been warming at a rate of around 0.2C per decade since the 1970s, but has “accelerated” since 2015 to a rate of 0.35C per decade.
The study warns that if the current rate of warming persists, the 1.5C Paris threshold will be breached in the next few years.
“The essential result of this paper isn’t how fast we’re warming, but that warming is now happening faster than before and that the difference isn’t negligible,” an author on the study tells Carbon Brief.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-global-warming-has-nearly-doubled-since-2015-study-says/
"China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.
This extends a “flat or falling” trend in China’s CO2 emissions that began in March 2024 and has now lasted for nearly two years.
The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that, in 2025, emissions from fossil fuels increased by an estimated 0.1%, but this was more than offset by a 7% decline in CO2 from cement.
Other key findings include:
- CO2 emissions fell year-on-year in almost all major sectors in 2025, including transport (3%), power (1.5%) and building materials (7%).
- The key exception was the chemicals industry, where emissions grew 12%.
- Solar power output increased by 43% year-on-year, wind by 14% and nuclear 8%, helping push down coal generation by 1.9%.
- Energy storage capacity grew by a record 75 gigawatts (GW), well ahead of the rise in peak demand of 55GW.
- This means that growth in energy storage capacity and clean-power output topped the increases in peak and total electricity demand, respectively.
The CO2 numbers imply that China’s carbon intensity – its fossil-fuel emissions per unit of GDP – fell by 4.7% in 2025 and by 12% during 2020-25.
This is well short of the 18% target set for that period by the 14th five-year plan.
Moreover, China would now need to cut its carbon intensity by around 23% over the next five years in order to meet one of its key climate commitments under the Paris Agreement."
#China #FossilFuels #CarbonEmissions #Decarbonization #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement
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