Schlagwort: climate politics

Reports

IPCC-report (AR6 WGIII) Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

The IPCC published the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, the Working Group III contribution. It was finalized on 4 April during the 14th Session of Working Group III and 56th Session of the IPCC. The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

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Media

States can be laboratories for climate policy

By Wil Burns and Toby Bryce, opinion contributors on The Hill

„Given the climate emergency we collectively face, and the current political vagaries and uncertainty of policy at the federal level, perhaps states can serve the American people as “laboratories” for climate policy as well, specifically in the realm of carbon dioxide removal (CDR).“

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Events

The future of direct air capture policy: a Climeworks and Carbon180 event

March 17, 2022, 11AM–12:10PM ET

Climeworks will be jointly hosting an online event with Carbon. This will deep dive into the latest CDR policy developments in the EU and the US with Climeworks’ head of climate policy Christoph Beuttler and Carbon180 executive director Erin Burns. There will also be guests from Carbfix and the Icelandic Youth Environmentalist Association, who were involved in the launch of Orca – a public engagement effort that is critical to all future direct air capture deployments worldwide.

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Reports

EASAC report: Forest bioenergy update – BECCS and its role in integrated assessment models

by the European Acadamies Science Advisory Council, 24 pp.

This commentary looks at the latest evidence on the ability of BECCS to deliver net removals of CO2 from the atmosphere and finds that there are substantial risks of it failing to achieve net removals at all, or that any removals are delayed beyond the critical period during which the world is seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to 1.5–2°C.

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Books

Rohling (2022): Rebalancing Our Climate: The Future Starts Today

by Eelco J. Rohling (Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Australian National University), Oxford Scholarship Online, DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197502556.001.0001, Print ISBN-13: 9780197502556 (in 2022)

„This book documents a wealth of ways to adjust the trajectory of climate change. It outlines measures to drive massive reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and to reflect part of the incoming energy from the Sun. For all measures, the book evaluates both advantages and disadvantages. Finally, it discusses the need to protect ourselves from impacts that have become inevitable already and looks at how society may be driven to get the job done. In short, this book provides powerful facts and arguments to support informed choices.“

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Media

Civil society briefing on the Working Group II Report of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment: Beyond the Limits. How Gambling on Overshoot is Pushing the Planet Beyond a Point of No Return

by the Germany-based Heinrich Böll Stiftung (HBF) and the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

The joint HBF-CIEL briefing summarizes the IPCC’s latest findings on the risks of temperature overshoot and of strategies premised on the possibility of returning from such overshoot through the use of solar radiation modification (SRM) or technological carbon dioxide removal (CDR).

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Peer-reviewed Publications

IPCC report – Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Released today, the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

The Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) as well as additional materials and information are available at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/

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Science-Policy Documents

Schaller et al. (2022): Atmospheric CO2 as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels

Romina Schaller, Till Markus, Klaas Korte, Erik Gawel IN: Reciel (Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law), 2022, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12434

In this article, the authors examine European Union legislation, focusing on the Renewable Energy Directive, and conclude that DAC fuels can be considered as renewable energy for the transport sector. Moreover, they highlight that the Directive does not yet regulate the methodology that defines the renewable character of DAC fuels and examine relevant criteria to be considered.

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