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World leaders to share climate commitments at P4G Seoul Summit
Posted : 2021-05-30 17:04
Updated : 2021-05-30 18:01
President Moon Jae-in speaks during a ceremony to mark the establishment of the presidential committee for 2050 carbon neutrality at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, Saturday. Yonhap
By Nam Hyun-woo
World leaders will share their commitments to tackle climate changes during the P4G Seoul Summit, which kicked off its two-day run online to pursue international cooperation for stronger environmental actions.
P4G, short for Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030, is a global initiative launched in 2017 to accelerate responses to climate change and the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Most importantly, they have staked out new territory, aspiring to limit global warming to a safer 1.5 degrees Celsius level as opposed to riskier 2 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures. To accomplish this, they are focused on winning the 10-year sprint to 2030. This is dictated by the latest science that tells us we must make significant cuts to climate pollution this decade to strengthen our chance of maintaining a habitable planet.
While time is short, winning the 10-year sprint and limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is still feasible with aggressive action to reduce not only CO
2, but also the non-CO
2 climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), methane and black carbon. It also requires protecting our forests and other natural carbon sinks. These are the essential levers to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. Beyond 1.5 degrees, it is increasingly likely that the self-reinforcing feedbacks will push the planet past irreversible tipping points with potentially catastrophic
12 April 2021
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Policymakers who ignore nuclear energy are not serious about meeting climate goals, delegates said at an Atlantic Council webinar last week. The first in the
Raising Ambitions series, the event highlighted the attributes of this clean source of electricity and heat ahead of the
Leaders’ Climate Summit, which the US Administration is hosting on 22-23 April.
Jennifer Gordon, managing editor and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, moderated the webinar s panel discussion, which included Sama Bilbao y Léon, director general of World Nuclear Association; William Magwood, director general of the OECD-Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA); John Wagner, director of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL); and Arun Khuttan, the Next Gen Nuclear Industry Council s project lead for COP26.
Criticizing Brazil over Amazon conservation will likely backfire (commentary)
Although Brazilians share a concern for the Amazon, and even hosted the groundbreaking Earth Summit in 1992, polls show less consensus on who is responsible for Amazon deforestation, who is best addressing this problem, or the role of foreign actors.
When activists or leaders from abroad single out Brazil and its president as bad actors on the environment, they risk potential backlash from Brazilians who often view such attacks as a double standard.
The heavy-handed tone that the Biden Administration has adopted may create unfortunate roadblocks to the progress which is possible, argue two authors from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute and the University of São Paulo.