Cherelle Blazer, the Sierra Club’s International Climate and Policy Director, will be in attendance at the Bonn SB 56 meetings from June 6-16. She will be focusing on Loss and Damage and the Glasgow Dialogue during the meetings and will be able to speak on those issues as well as energy issues (coal, oil, and gas), climate, and fossil fuel financing.
La Unión Europea adoptó hoy su plan RePowerEU para empezar a eliminar las importaciones de combustibles fósiles de Rusia. RePowerEU se centrará en aumentar la eficacia energética y exigir ahorros, para así reducir los obstáculos a la energía limpia y expandir la energía solar. La meta es reducir dos tercios de las importaciones de gas fósil de Rusia este año y el resto para 2027.
BRUSSELS -- Today, European Union adopted its RePowerEU plan to begin eliminating Russian fossil fuel imports. RePowerEU will focus on increasing energy efficiency and demand savings, reducing bottlenecks for clean energy projects, and expanding solar energy, with the goal of cutting the EU’s fossil gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year and the remaining one-third by 2027. At the same time, the EU also released its International Energy Strategy, which will partially focus on increasing imports of false solutions like blue hydrogen and fossil gas through deals with the US, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Japan, Korea, and other countries.
Global coal plant capacity under development declined in 2021, according to Global Energy Monitor’s eighth annual survey of the coal plant pipeline. The report finds that after rising in 2020 for the first time since 2015, total coal power capacity under development declined 13% last year, from 525 gigawatts (GW) to 457 GW, a record low. 34 countries have new coal plants under consideration, down from 41 countries in January 2021. China, South Korea, and Japan notably pledged to stop funding new coal plants in other countries, but China continued to lead all countries in domestic development of new coal plants, commissioning more coal capacity than the rest of the world combined.
El Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático emitió su Sexto Informe de Evaluación del Grupo de Trabajo 3 sobre métodos de mitigación climática y cómo limitar el ascenso de las temperaturas globales a 1,5 grados centígrados.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report 6 Working Group 3 (WG III) released its new report on climate mitigation methods and how to limit global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, covering everything from mitigation pathways to carbon pollution removal, with chapters dedicated to technology and innovation for the first time in IPCC history. Critically, the report also details why mitigation is both economically feasible and necessary.
Early this morning, President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the development of plans to help the EU end its reliance on Russian gas in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement lays out strategies to both expand the supply of US-produced gas to Europe and reduce Europe’s need for fossil fuels, though the latter is light on details about how this would be achieved or whether it includes investments in false solutions like blue hydrogen.
El Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (PICC) de la ONU emitió hoy su Sexto Informe de Evalución del Grupo de Trabajo en el que detalla los costos y consecuencias de la crisis climática, incluyendo salud pública, desplazamiento poblacional, inseguridad de agua y alimentos, además del potencial y límites de la adaptabilidad a la crisis climática y mantener el calentamiento de la atmósfera a solo 1,5 grados centígrados.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report 6 Working Group 2 (WG II) released its new report spelling out the costs and consequences of the climate crisis, including public health, displacement, food and water insecurity, as well as the potential and limits in adapting to the climate crisis and keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
NEW ORLEANS -- The Sierra Club’s International Climate and Policy Campaign is joining with the #Blairisms for a series of conversations about climate justice and the African Diaspora leading up to the 27th UN Climate Conference or Conference of Parties (COP).
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND -- After two weeks of often intense negotiations, the annual United Nations climate summit (COP26) wrapped up in Glasgow today. The summit took place in the wake of record-breaking storms and flooding in Glasgow, a reminder that the climate crisis is affecting every corner of our planet. It also occurred amid the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, which led to limited and inequitable participation.