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Peak emissions before 2025: key messages from the IPCC’s Synthesis Report
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
The IPCC's final report of its Sixth Assessment Cycle is a comprehensive overview of the state of climate change and a roadmap for action in this critical. Our experts pull out the key messages.
Despite having 60% of the world’s solar resources the continent has less than 2% of the world’s investment in renewable energy. At COP27, there were calls to expand African gas, risking locking in high emissions, burdening their economies with stranded assets, and potentially losing out on major economic opportunities to invest in renewable energy and green hydrogen.
"If offsets are not real, additional and permanent – or if they’re used to continue fossil fuel emissions – then they will make climate change worse rather than better." — Bill Hare
Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows
Dr Robert Brecha, Gaurav Ganti
This piece, originally published in The Conversation, highlights our research into decarbonisation scenarios put out by the IEA, BP, Shell and Equinor. Our research team found that none of the assessed scenarios from oil majors are consistent with the Paris Agreement.
New pathways to 1.5°C: interpreting the IPCC’s Working Group III scenarios in the context of the Paris Agreement
Gaurav Ganti, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Bill Hare