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.

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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.

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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

Read more: https://theconversation.com/planting-trees-to-remove-carbon-can-harm-the-environment-or-protect-it-study-highlights-trade-offs-276335

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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

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#ClimateCrisis
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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

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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/climate-advisory-opinions-and-the-emergence-of-general-principles/