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Climate change could reduce global average incomes by 19 percent - study

RNZ 18 Apr 2024
Victoria University of Wellington economics of disasters and climate change chairperson Ilan Noy said the paper showed the transition to sustainable energy sources was less expensive than the cost ...
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Global climate change damage projected to cost $38 trillion per year by 2050

The Daily Herald - St Maarten 18 Apr 2024
"It costs us much less to protect the climate than not to." ... As well as spending too little to curb climate-warming emissions, governments are also under-spending on measures to adapt to the impact of climate change.
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Sasol makes global CO2 emissions blacklist

Mail Guardian South Africa 18 Apr 2024
Despite the Paris Agreement on climate change signed in 2015, carbon emissions by many of the fossil fuel companies on the Carbon Majors list have increased in the past seven years compared to the seven years before.
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Climate impact set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth

Dawn 18 Apr 2024
Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Climate change could depress global income by almost 20%, study shows

WPTV 18 Apr 2024
It found that compared to a theoretical future without these climate effects, "the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices.".
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New Zealand to double renewable energy capacity to reduce emissions

Xinhua 18 Apr 2024
The data show higher renewable energy was a key contributor to lower gross emissions in 2022, said Climate Change Minister Simon Watts ... New Zealand to double renewable energy capacity to reduce emissions.
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Scottish Government to set out climate change plans after report warning

AOL 18 Apr 2024
The Scottish Government has missed its legally binding annual emissions reduction targets in eight out of the last 12 years ... “Tackling climate change is an environmental imperative and our moral obligation.
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GOLDSTEIN: Exaggerated claims about climate change costing us money, report says

Toronto Sun 18 Apr 2024
In fact, Canada could reduce its emissions to net zero by tomorrow and it would have no impact on climate change, or the weather in Canada, or anywhere else ... Climate change is a global issue driven by global emissions.
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Lethal heatwave in Sahel worsened by fossil fuel burning, study finds

AOL 18 Apr 2024
The deadly protracted heatwave that filled hospitals and mortuaries in the Sahel region of Africa earlier this month would have been impossible without human-caused climate disruption, a new analysis has revealed.
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OLYMPICS/ How green are your trainers? Team Japan kits to have carbon footprint labels

Asahi News 18 Apr 2024
The Tokyo-based company said it reduced emissions on the official kits by about 34% from the last Games in Tokyo by using recycled and lighter material as well as renewable energy at its factory in Japan.
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World economy faces massive income reduction due to climate change: study

People Daily 18 Apr 2024
BERLIN, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The global economy faces an income loss of 19 percent by 2050 due to climate change, even if greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced immediately, according to a new study published on Wednesday.
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Scotland to ditch 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target, says BBC report

Philenews 18 Apr 2024
The BBC report, which did not name its sources, said annual climate targets could also be scrapped ... She did not confirm changes to the climate targets.
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Deadly heat in West Africa warns of climate change-driven scorchers to come

LBC International 18 Apr 2024
The severity of the heatwave led WWA's team of climate scientists to conduct a rapid analysis, which concluded the temperatures would not have been reached if industry had not warmed the planet by burning fossil fuels and other activities.
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Local leaders pledge to ‘resist dragging climate policies into culture wars’

AOL 18 Apr 2024
Local Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green Party leaders have pledged to “resist dragging climate policies into culture wars” ahead of the May elections ... in delivering climate action.
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Doerr hopes to remove greenhouse gas emissions

Stanford Daily 18 Apr 2024
Climate Change, said in a United Nations press release that the group of countries, “are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.5 degrees Celsius world.” .
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