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As school starts back up across Oregon, educators can go right to this source material to learn about updated global impacts and strategize how to bring climate education into their classroom. Education is a climate solution. #climateeducation #oregonclimateeducation #climatesolutions

**Global temperature exceeds 1.5C for the whole of 2023** The reality is we should now be thinking about climate adaptation as much as about decarbonisation and energy efficiency. The article makes for difficult (sad) reading. CIBSE EDGE APM

As Andrew Cooper says, this makes for difficult reading. It is easy to become despondent when faced with these types of reports. We need to continue to strive to reduce emissions. In real estate, the increased use of science based targets benchmarking, such as CRREM - Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor as part of building management but also as part of transactions can help ensure that real building performance and emissions become synonymous with asset value. This is a KPI in the Acquisitions Sustainability Toolkit recently released by the Better Buildings Partnership

If the entire world forced net zero CO2 emissions by the year 2050, a warming of only 0.070C (0.13F) would be averted. If one assumes that the warming is a factor of 4 larger because of positive feedbacks, as asserted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the warming averted by a net zero U.S. policy would still be very small, 0.034C (0.061F). For worldwide net zero emissions by 2050 and the 4-times larger IPCC climate sensitivity, the averted warming would be 0.28 C (0.50F). This according to a brief paper authored by Drs. Richard Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William Happer, Princeton University; and William A. van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto.  https://lnkd.in/evwJvd5U

As with most changes to company compliance spending, three (3) factors should be considered. Reputation: Business owners can answer that one themselves. You know if your business should be doing more to support a positive impact and can you prove it accurately? Regulation: Sometimes the market needs a little push to move things forward. Look no further than the financial markets to see how regulation improves efficiencies within organisations as new solutions/tech helps companies navigate a changing environment (no pun intended 😀 ). Economics: How to offset (another pun I know) these additional costs while considering if additional revenues could be found. Thankfully, OneTr1be has considered each of these carefully in their solutions and can solve for each now!

My new illuminem article argues that US climate policy in the next 4 years can make or break global progress toward net zero by 2050 and the possibility of staying within 2ᵒC. https://lnkd.in/g-w8CG7V Key points: ➡ Global annual emissions are still increasing at the moment. ➡If we begin to cut emissions 5% annually starting now, we'll use up the remaining carbon budget (for 2ᵒC with high confidence) by 2050 and get to only a 74% reduction in annual emissions. It will then require a cheap and high-volume CDR technology to soak up the remaining annual emissions, which doesn't exist today. (See the emissions model here: https://lnkd.in/gtWn8X7X) ➡ In the US, the Inflation Reduction Act puts us on at least a 5% annual reduction path through 2030, but it loses steam after that. Additional regulations to limit auto and power plant emissions in the 2030s are in place, but will need regular updates and can be easily reversed. The IRA itself could be repealed or curtailed, but with more difficulty. ➡As the world's second largest emitter, if the US can't stay on a viable path to net zero by 2050 then it will be difficult to ask other countries (especially those dependent even more on fossil fuels today) to somehow get there in good time. This year's US election will be very consequential for climate.

Climate Science Update - 3 Recent Reports At The Borrowed Earth Project, we make every effort to balance the doom and gloom of current #climatescience with news and views on what can be done about it, and progress with the #energytransition. Otherwise, we can feel as powerless as a rabbit in the headlights, which does not help, and it does not fairly represent the enormous changes taking place, for example in the rollout of #renewableenergy and its falling prices compared to #fossilfuels. However, while some governments are scaling back their responses to #climatechange, and some communities are challenging #netzero policies, global emissions of CO2 are going up, not coming down. So from time to time we feel the need to go back to the science for a reminder of the urgency of the whole issue. Our latest blog contains short summaries of 3 recent reports: >Copernicus Satellite Global Climate Highlights 2023 >Global Carbon Budget 2023 >European Climate Risk Assessment Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eqdzg92c University of Exeter Future Earth European Environment Agency William Wilson

Last week the IPCC agreed on their set of scientific reports for the 7th assessment cycle that including more details on #CarbonRemoval Technologies and #CarbonCapture, enabling word leaders to do more than just implement action strategies, but exceed emission reduction targets through innovative market mechanisms. ⚙️🏬 💡Why is this good? The reports will aim to enable governments to get policy-relevant, timely and actionable scientific information as soon as possible while providing actionable steps on adapting to climate change. Follow up reports from the IPPC this year include: 🌍 Climate Change and Cities 🌍 Short-lived Climate Forcers 🌍 Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies 🌍Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage 🌍Revision of the 1994 IPCC Technical Guidelines on impacts and adaptation 🌍Working Group II report - release dates TBC! #IPCC #climatechange

Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions as necessary to counteract the existential threat of climate change. The program’s comprehensive and prohibitively expensive initiative proposes to transform the operational military by achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2045, purportedly on firmly established “science-based” targets that are validated by computer models and consensus within the scientific community. The plan's ambitious yet unrealistic goals, which are presented as an alarmist ultimatum, ignore the foundational principles of physics and battle-proven lessons of military history. The Plan establishes emission objectives by determining “alignment with the scale of reductions required to limit global warming below 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.” These emission reduction targets come directly from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Net-Zero Paris Climate Accord. The IPCC is not a science based organization that conducts its own research but rather a governmental policy organization whose members are countries, not scientists, and whose representatives are bureaucrats who develop and promote international climate policy. The IPCC sponsors and filters climate science research generated from outside organizations to support its primary charter of establishing the man made causes and influences on climate change. https://lnkd.in/dJ8WSQV6