New data from Copernicus, the EU Climate Monitoring Centre, shows that 2020 was the warmest year ever in Europe, 0.4°C above the previous record form 2019 and 1.6°C above the 1981-2001 reference period. Globally, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever on record. Global temperatures was 0.6 °C above the 1981-2001 reference period … Read more
Finland’s new government said on Monday (4 June) the country will aim to cut its carbon emissions completely by 2035. The Nordic nation will take over the rotating EU presidency in July, with an ambitious pan-European climate deal still left on the negotiating table. After more than a month of talks, Finland agreed on a … Read more
The bonds that hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling from deforestation, overfishing, development, and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human pressures, one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of … Read more
In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals. Paris The Paris Accord at COP 21 managed to achieve what had failed at Kyoto and Copenhagen and that was to get the nations of the world to commit to decarbonising their energy systems. The macro … Read more
The context, apart from a rapidly warming planet, is that the meetings in December 2018 in Katowice in Poland aim to take the whats from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and turn them into hows, specifically for financing – how much should more developed nations contribute vs developing nations? “Limiting global warming to 1.5ºC would require rapid, … Read more