, a goal that was bolstered recently by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides billions of dollars for electric cars and more efficient buildings and homes. The administration has not signaled that it's considering a stronger target.
"We want the COP to make sure that everybody understands we're doing the things necessary to keep 1.5 degrees alive," U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry said this week."We need to have the NDCs, not just of developed countries, but developing countries around the world, need to step up and put in their NDCs because everybody needs to do their part here.
While both countries are rolling out significant amounts of renewable energy, they're still building new coal-fired power plants, too. At last year's summit, the two countries joined others inthat would phase out the use of coal, arguing that developing economies have the right to use it as richer nations have done.
With the cost of solar and wind often cheaper than building new fossil fuel power plants, renewable energy has grown by leaps and bounds. From 2019 to 2021, solar grew by 47%. But the transition to cleaner energy sources needs to speed up six times faster, according to aAction is lagging on many other fronts, too. The report found the rate of deforestation needs to slow down by 2.5 times. Electric cars need to be adopted five times faster than they are now.
"We've never known more about the climate crises, and we've never known more about what we need to do about it and how," says Claire Fyson of Climate Analytics."This global report card about climate action makes clear that we're not moving fast enough."
Fairy tales.
Climate change is just a way if getting $$$ for libs...
I thought climate change was a man-made money making hoax and the real problem is the earth's magnetic field declining rapidly. But I'm no scientist.
What a complete pile of crap.
Climate change is a scam.
Indeed. We’ve made a tiny dent, but we are still one bee extinction from becoming a galactic archeological curiosity.
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NPR is just as far behind in actual reporting !
They have a new device that can not only scrub our atmosphere but make diamonds from it.. We need that tech.. to be invested in highly.
So it's gonna come to violence to get anything solved then.
UN commie want you in chains and NPR is happy to make it a reality
We need a lot more nuclear power for pragmatic, reliable electricity, but fossil fuels created the size of the economy and people can't admit it has to shrink. Covering what's left of open space with vast wind and solar 'farms' is the misguided approach people keep falling for.
'How does pollution affect sunlight?' 'Scientists have found that the air pollution absorbs and disperses sunlight and thereby reduces the amount that reaches the Earth's surface.'Sep 2, 2019 h ttps://www.technologynetworks.com › ...
So bizarre that humans are driving themselves to extinction so the ultra rich can make more money and we talk about it like it’s some background banality like taxes. “Whadya gonna do, am I right?”
Who are the world's top 3 polluters? We should probably turn up the pressure there?
we are doomed. might as well max out the credit cards. fukit
Global warming can only be solved by sending more money to the U.N.- U.N. report
Natural gas.
I'll be surprised if we meet the 3% goal.