With world leaders and thousands of delegates and observers meeting in Glasgow for COP26, there is much talk of this being the last chance to …
Category: Net zero emissions
Article 6 at COP26
My home country, Australia, seems to reside permanently in the international climate doghouse, but a closer look reveals that they have made steady progress on …
Double counting or dual accounting?
With growing demand from investors, customers and other stakeholders for companies to become net-zero and/or sell net-zero emission goods and services, there is increasing interest …
The simple climate maths the IPCC didn’t fully explain
When I first started delving into the issue of climate change about 20 years ago, the clarion call of the day was to reduce emissions …
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Are we now range bound on temperature?
In my last post I discussed the recent IEA 1.5°C Scenario that sets out what is required to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and manage …
An ambitious step-up on transport
Last week the German government announced a step-up in their ambition to reduce emissions, with a new target date for net-zero emissions of 2045. This …
A very different pathway forwards for India
As COP 26 approaches, the UK government (as President of the COP) and the UNFCCC are encouraging as many countries as possible, in accordance with …
Growing pressures
The task of getting to net-zero emissions by 2050 has become the rallying cry behind COP 26 and considerable diplomatic effort is now being applied …
The importance of sinks
A review of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C shows that all four archetype scenarios (P1, P2, P3 and P4) make use of sinks …
Exploring the energy future
Three scenarios, Waves, Islands and Sky 1.5 explore the energy landscape out to 2100 and reveal very different possible pathways forward. All three are transformational …
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