Canada’s recently released greenhouse gas inventory shows that every western province has increased its climate pollution since 1990, the international baseline year for measuring climate action.
On the other side of the country, every eastern province has reduced its emissions.
New Meta-Study Confirms The Effectiveness Of Carbon Pricing
"A study led by the climate research institute MCC in Berlin found that #CarbonPricing systems contributed to a reduction in #emissions ranging from 5% to 21% during their initial years of implementation."
#Exxon remains the largest US producer of #oil and #gas and the biggest emitter of CO2 among investor-owned companies. The Texas-based company also has the weakest #emissions-reduction targets among the world’s “oil supermajors,” according to Carbon Tracker https://buff.ly/4akfWo4
In case you are thinking humanity is getting CO2 #emissions under control, I have this graph for you.
This is not the absolute CO2 level in the atmosphere, but its growth rate. Think for a second what this growth rate would have to be so we can stay below 1.5 or 2deg warning.
Right, this growth rate would have to be negative: fewer emissions this year than last year.
Of course, it's not. It's worse, much worse. The growth is still growing!! It's not even constant.
A US push to use #ethanol as aviation fuel raises major climate concerns
"The IRA offers a tax credit of $1.25 per gallon for SAFs that are 50% lower in #Emissions than standard #JetFuel, [but] A 2022 EPA analysis surveyed the findings from a variety of models that estimate the life-cycle emissions of #corn-based ethanol and found that in seven out of 20 cases, they exceeded 80% of the climate pollution from gasoline and diesel."
Heavy Delivery Vehicles (HDVs) 🚛 account for just 3% of road transport sector vehicles, but generate 30% of all road transport #emissions. Our new report ‘Heavy Lifting Required’ finds Truck Makers’ Electric Transition is too slow for #NetZero targets https://buff.ly/4dnWUzD
BREAKING (the climate):
Based on daily values, the April average of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 426.5-426.6 ppm. That's a big jump of ~3.2 ppm from last year's 423.35 ppm!
It's also the highest CO₂ concentration the world has experienced in 14 million years.
2024 #AGM Season
Investors file record number of #ClimateResolutions for North American companies
"A record 263 climate-related shareholder resolutions have been filed so far this year for annual meetings of North American companies, a new tally showed on Tuesday, with proponents tailoring their wording to gain support."
"By margins of more than 4-to-1, shareholders at Berkshire's annual meeting voted against two proposals that the company's insurance and energy operations disclose more about their efforts to address #ClimateChange including greenhouse gas #emissions.
They also turned down a proposal for more disclosure about efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace."
It's just about DISCLOSURE
(Why are they so scared of daylight)
"A growing number of climate analysts believe that 2023 may be recorded as the year in which annual #emissions reached a pinnacle before the global fossil fuel economy begins a terminal decline.
“It’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’ – and the sooner the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, the head of the IEA."
"The inertia behind this trend toward lower #emissions is so immense that even politics can only slow it down, not stop it. Many of the worst-case climate scenarios imagined in past decades are now much less likely.
Still, this means that humanity is adding to the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — and doing so at close to its fastest pace ever."