Original Article: 4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System AI PERPLEXITY FOLLOW-UP: Continuing the Shift Towards a Carbon-Free Power System Since the publication of the article "4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System" on the WRI Insights blog in May 2023, there have been several important developments in the ongoing transition... Continue Reading →
Stories to Watch 2023 At this pivotal moment, WRI President & CEO Ani Dasgupta will share insights into our predictions for the big stories coming up in 2023, including what actions governments, businesses, institutions and people must take to get the world on the right path. The 20th annual Stories to Watch centers on one... Continue Reading →
World Resources Institute – Stories to Watch 2023
Forests around the world play a major role in curbing or contributing to climate change. Standing, healthy forests sequester more atmospheric carbon than they emit and act as a carbon sink; degraded and deforested areas release stored carbon and are a carbon source. Forests are a net carbon sink globally, but there’s huge variation locally. Our analysis... Continue Reading →
Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks
The State of Climate Action 2022 provides a comprehensive assessment of the global gap in climate action across the world’s highest-emitting systems, highlighting where recent progress made in reducing GHG emissions, scaling up carbon removal, and increasing climate finance must accelerate over the next decade to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit warming to... Continue Reading →
State of Climate Action 2022
Headlines related to recent extreme weather appear to come out of a science fiction book: Even the richest countries in the world can’t control widespread fires — they’re even burning in the Arctic. Deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July 2021 completely washed away buildings and cars, and more than 1,000 people remain missing. Hundreds died in flooding in China. The U.S.... Continue Reading →
(Repost) 5 Big Findings from the IPCC’s 2021 Climate Report
Training on Climate Data Tools with Climate Watch: Country Profiles
Climate Watch is a free online platform designed to empower policymakers, advocates, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change. . Video Source Site Link
There's never been a better time to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon in the United States in March 2022 and more than $10 a gallon in other countries. Meanwhile, the world is already experiencing... Continue Reading →
5 Ways to Cut Oil and Gas Use Through Clean Transportation
The UN climate summit this November in Egypt represents a major opportunity to address the needs of vulnerable countries, especially related to adaptation, resilience and loss and damage. Vulnerable countries’ urgent needs are underscored by the recent work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which revealed the devastating climate impacts we are already... Continue Reading →
5 Pillars for success at COP27
The science is clearer than ever that to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change, we not only have to reduce emissions, but also pull CO2 directly out of the air with carbon removal. The U.S. Long-Term Strategy indicates that in addition to reducing emissions by at least 85% around half a billion tons... Continue Reading →
Building Direct Air Capture Responsibly from the Ground Up
The planet has already warmed by 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) due to human-induced climate change, and millions of people are today facing the real-life consequences of higher temperatures, rising seas, fiercer storms and unpredictable rainfall. Rapidly reducing emissions is essential to limit temperature rise and secure a safer future for us all, as... Continue Reading →
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