Latest assessment from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers crystal clear verdict on future of coal and gas and raises questions on offsets.
Humans must make “deep, rapid, and sustained” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC’s March 20 assessment warns that the 2020s will be perhaps the last chance to keep the global rise in temperature within 1.5° […]
Biden Pledges U.S. Will Cut Climate-Changing Pollution At Least In Half By 2030
The new target for limiting planet-warming pollution nearly doubles Obama s goal, highlighting how much time to act was lost during the Trump years.
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President Joe Biden has vowed an all-of-government approach to cutting emissions and is now seeking to rally the world behind his effort.
President Joe Biden pledged Thursday that the United States would slash its output of climate-changing carbon gases at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade in a bid to renew the effort to overhaul the global economy and stave off catastrophic warming.