Kiwi optimist in London. Exploring win-wins and ways to get to a prosperous net zero world. Views are my own and evolve.
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Samuel Gordon retweeted
Big green news for late on a Friday. Aviation industry has a new @icao approved net zero target for 2050. But can it deliver? businessgreen.com/news-analy… BG+
It's just 3 years - almost to the day - since the first airline committed to net zero emissions. Now the entire industry and 193 countries are onboard. The pace of change is fast.
The 15% net reduction between 2019-30 is in line with what NDCs will deliver, I believe. Onwards..
Interesting to see net zero resources coming into the mix
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Samuel Gordon retweeted
New visualization alert! Watch global temperature changes from 1880 to 2021 by latitude zone. As you can see, global warming isn't uniform around the planet, and the Arctic has been warming much faster than other regions. Learn more and download the video: climate.nasa.gov/climate_res…
Samuel Gordon retweeted
The IPCC report makes it clear that limiting warming to well-below 2C requires "immediate and deep" greenhouse gas reductions in all sectors.
But they also feature carbon dioxide reduction as a "key element" to reach achieve these goals. Lets explore CDR in the WG3 report!
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Samuel Gordon retweeted
So if you're a fan of renewable energy, you'll like the UK's new Energy Strategy:
💨50GW of offshore wind by 2030
💨Up to 5GW of floating wind
☀️5-fold increase in solar by 2035
💚At least 5GW of green hydrogen by 2030
💨More onshore wind
Little thread on details/significance
This is incredibly out of touch.
The aim is to get to net zero and increase welfare. Not to get to net zero at any cost.
Transition people, don't suddenly halt stuff.
Some of this "infrastructure" will also transport green fuels and be used for carbon removals.
Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals.
But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.
Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.
Samuel Gordon retweeted
Panasonic got its highest-emitting Chinese factory to “virtually net zero” carbon dioxide. It took six years, showing how difficult it can be for companies to reduce their environmental footprints to deal with climate change.
@Phred_Dvorak
Paraphrasing: “There is a group-level commitment to capturing 10MT CO2 by 2030. There are something like 80 years of capacity at 10MT a year into the gas field. Storage capacity isn’t something we have to worry about.”
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Fun stuff
Fun data from @New_AutoMotive on U.K. new car market.
March 2017: 53% petrol, 43% diesel, 3% hybrid, 1% pure electric
March 2022: 50% petrol, 9% diesel, 25% hybrid, 16% pure electric newautomotive.org/ecc h/t @liamdenning
Pretty decent takeaways. Sounds like the report is short of some text on how to manage trade-offs. I see a lot of those coming up. Like where the cuts fall between sectors.
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Ah, this was a chart I was looking for - cheers!
Indeed, since the IPCC WG3 literature cutoff we've already seen a number lower warming outcomes (<3C median warming) associated with current policies (more on this soon!). carbonbrief.org/analysis-do-… 6/
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It's a landmark report.
But this "now or never" framing is behind the curve.
90% of global emissions are covered by net zero targets. We'll land somewhere between 1.5-2C.
We're already into the era of managing tradeoffs, en route.
aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/4/…
Samuel Gordon retweeted
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The @IPCC_CH report on how to tackle climate change is finally out, covering nearly 3,000 pages
Look out tomorrow for @CarbonBrief in-depth summary
Here are some highlights
1/ Global GHG emissions are at highest ever level, but growth has slowed
ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessm…
Samuel Gordon retweeted
The #IPCC #ClimateReport has just been approved!! 🙌 16 days, capped off with a final ~40hrs straight of line-by-line negotiation & approval. As one of the authors of the report, this moment culminates years of work. Congratulations to all the authors, Chairs and delegates 🎉
