• Climate News: To avoid global catastophe and the reversing of human progress we must bend the curve away from fossil fuels - Johan Rockström

  • Nov 17 2024
  • Length: 29 mins
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Climate News: To avoid global catastophe and the reversing of human progress we must bend the curve away from fossil fuels - Johan Rockström

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  • Professor Dr Johan Rockström (pictured) from the Potsdam Univerity fears both environmental catastrophe and catastrophe reversal of human progress if we don't bend the curve away from fossil fuels. "A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change"; "Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System"; "Poorer nations need $1tn a year by 2030 in climate finance, top economists find"; "Argentina withdraws negotiators from Cop29 summit"; "‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds"; "What Is Project 2025, and Why Did Trump Distance Himself From It During the Campaign?"; "‘Fossil Fuels Are Still Winning’: Global Emissions Head for a Record"; "Global Warming Made Helene More Menacing, Researchers Say"; "What are tariffs?"; "Proposal at UN climate talks to tax business-class flights, crypto and plastics"; "From Chile and Taiwan via Glasgow, youth call for climate justice"; "The all-male Cop29 committee is a big step backwards for climate"; "The Tug-of-War on This Climate Super Pollutant Has Big Implications for the Future"; "What the Earth’s Recent Heat Uptick Could Mean for the Climate Fight"; "Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0"; "Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies"; "Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts"; "Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics"; "Albanese unlikely to announce new climate targets until after federal election"; "To Protect the Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming, Fertilizers Must Be Deployed More Efficiently, UN Says"; "‘COP Fatigue’: Experts Warn That Size and Spectacle of Global Climate Summit Is Hindering Progress"; "As New York Congestion Pricing Turns a Corner, Experts Point to Lessons From London"; "Good To Go? Decarbonising Travel After the Pandemic"; "The case for COPs (even this one)"; "Did people have to fly to COP29? Private jet use soared, but one group got to Baku overland"; "Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29"; "At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change"; "COP29 climate finance in numbers: How much is needed and where is it coming from?"; "Katharine Hayhoe’s Post-Election Advice: Fight Fear, Embrace Hope and Work Together"; "In a Parched US, Human-Triggered Wildfires Are Poised to Thrive"; "Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report"; "How will offshore wind fare under a second Trump term?"; "A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry"; "Global Warming Made Helene More Menacing, Researchers Say"; "If our hot water heaters ran off daytime solar, we would slash emissions and soak up cheap energy".
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