To avoid mounting loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure, ambitious and accelerated action is required to adapt to climate change, at the same time as making rapid, deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC panel urged.
For much of the world, climate-change stress is right here, right now — and the latest highly-anticipated United Nations’ report confirms this emergency.
The energy industry itself has maintained that it has the scale to help with the push to renewables and the inclusion of carbon-emissions capture and storage and other technologies that could “clean up” the sector. Some groups, including a U.S.-based natural gas utility trade group, say a mix of energy sources will be needed to keep economic growth afloat and help the U.S. maintain energy independence.
The series of reports — which can help set everything from global emissions targets to disaster insurance reviews to the next trend in Environmental, Social and Governance investing ESGU, -0.18% — brought together hundreds of the world’s leading scientists and are issued every five to seven years. “The report reveals that we need action within this decade, across all sectors, and that includes international shipping. It’s under the radar, but if shipping alone were a country, it would be the world’s sixth largest polluter, more than Germany or Canada,” said Kendra Ulrich, the shipping campaigns director at Stand Earth, a forest and climate-focused policy advocacy group.
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