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Climate change: Future of today's young people

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Climate scientists reveal that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms under current climate policies. Meeting the Paris Agreement's 1.5 If global temperatures rise by 3.5 C threshold.

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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

3BL Media

While there have been some setbacks, particularly regarding pollution in the Seine River and a reversal on using air conditioners in the Olympic Village, the Paris Olympics have won overall high marks for being environmentally friendly.

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Climate scientists express their views on possible future climate scenarios in a new study

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

A new survey of climate experts reveals that a majority believes the Earth to be headed for a rise in global temperatures far higher than the 2015 Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 to well-below 2 degrees Celsius.

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IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words

Environmental News Bits

C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement – as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark report by the world’s most senior climate scientists. by Keith Baker (Glasgow Caledonian University) Earth could exceed 1.5°C

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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First in Flight: American Airlines Is Leading the Airline Industry on a Science-Based Journey to Net-Zero Emissions

3BL Media

Today, the airline is proud to share that the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a coalition that defines and promotes best practices in emissions reduction targets, has approved American’s 2035 target as consistent with levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. What this means.

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Enbridge Welcomes New UN Flagship Report on Climate Change

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Society must move more forcefully to combat global warming, the world’s top climate scientists warned Monday in a new report that says existing solutions and innovation offer hope—but not without action. With pursuit of RNG, hydrogen, CCS and renewables, we’re accelerating society’s transition to a lower-carbon world.