On 18 October, the Chair of The Elders, Mary Robinson, and her deputy, Ban Ki-moon, addressed the international media in a virtual press call on the climate crisis. The two Elders provided opinions and analyses on the forthcoming G20 Summit … Continue reading →
The International Energy Agency IEA has published its flagship report World Energy Outlook 2021 on October during the lead-up to COP26 in Glasgow in November. They conclude that even if the pledges already announced by governments (the Announced Pledges Scenario … Continue reading →
This is the poster promoting an event that Coventry City Council will be running an E-power Day between 10:00 and 16:00 at Millennium Place outside the Coventry Transport Museum on 28 October, and their publicity for the event says: E-scooters, electric … Continue reading →
On Thursday 21 October, the first and only national debate in the run-up to the Glasgow climate talks will be held in the House of Commons. Friends of the Earth’s challenge is to get as many MPs there as possible … Continue reading →
New reports by the International Energy Agency [1] and by BloombergNEF [2] in the lead-up to COP26 both estimate that the global cost of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will be somewhere around $4 trillion per year. This is over … Continue reading →
Climate Change is probably the biggest threat not just to our children’s lives but also to World Peace. Each one of us can do our bit to reduce the risk by taking action to reduce our carbon footprints. Make your … Continue reading →
It is October 2021. A group of nine people are walking from the south coast of England to Glasgow in Scotland to highlight all that will be at stake in the November global climate conference of world leaders, COP26. On … Continue reading →
Global climate change is expected to have huge effects on countless aspects of life on Earth over the next few decades. Scientists have enumerated a daunting list of predicted consequences: extreme weather, desertification, heatwaves and wildfire, endangerment and extinction of … Continue reading →
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of “holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.” A collaboration … Continue reading →
Summary In order to replace all fossil fuels with clean electricity, we calculate the world needs to spend about $105 trillion. This is more than the world’s total Gross Domestic Product, which was about $85 trillion in 2018. If this … Continue reading →
