Podcast

RENEWABLE REVOLUTION – Fremtidens Næringsliv

Posted on September 12, 2020September 25, 2020
by Klima 2020

Financing the green shift requires the same cooperative effort that…

Climate change

Global climate goals, renewables and needed actions

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020
by Klima 2020

Interview with Svein Tveitdal on @trtworld: Global climate goals, renewables,…

World Clean Air Day on environmental threats to young people

Climate change

Child health & environment

Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
by Klima 2020

My comments on Indus news at the 1st World Clean…

Climate change

An uninhabitable world?

Posted on August 19, 2020
by Klima 2020

My comments to TRTnews about global heat records, further projections,…

News

Unikt samarbeid om Havvind på Sørlandet

Posted on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
by Klima 2020

Sørlandet har nå sjansen til å bli best i verden…

Climate change

Climate emergency as an increasing danger to peace

Posted on August 3, 2020
by Klima 2020

My comments on Indus News to climate emergency as an…

Climate change

Klimaendringene farligere enn korona

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
by Klima 2020

Klimaendringene blir et større problem for menneskeheten enn korona-krisa, og…

Climate change

COVID-19 and Climate change – opportunities through green bailouts

Posted on April 30, 2020April 30, 2020
by Klima 2020

My comments to COVID 19, climate change, nature loss and…

Indus news - Corona and Climate Chhange - Svein Tveitdal

Climate change

Coronavirus and climate change – change in human behaviour

Posted on March 16, 2020March 19, 2020
by Klima 2020

Svein Tveitdal, Klima2020 in live discussions on Indus News about…

Climate change

Driving a local green revolution

Posted on February 17, 2020March 19, 2020
by Klima 2020

Interview by Holly Bodeker-Smith with Svein Tveitdal on Inklings (original…

Status 1959 days after the Paris agreement:

The Paris Climate Agreement (2015) aims to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial (1880) levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Five years later we have almost the same emissions as in 2015 even if COVID-19 might result in a reduction in 2020 on 6-7 %. But unfortunately the pandemic stimulus packages continues to damage the environment.

Current pledges made by signatories to the Paris agreement is insufficient and may result in a warming of 2,7-3,6°C by the end of the century. But in 2020 most countries lag behind the Paris pledges they made 5 years ago. We are already experiencing a warming on 1,2°C, the 1,5°C target is out of reach, and with the current trend we might end up with 5°C warming and climate catastrophe.

The good news is that governments now seem to wake up. At the next COP in Glasgow this year it is expected that 100 countries, representing two thirds of both global emissons and economy will pledge climate neutrality by 2050 (China 2060). This is not enough to limit warming to 2°C but gives reason for some optimism. The figure below show the tremendous challenge ahead to stay below 2°C

The Paris Climate Agreement represent major threats and opportunities for the business sector. To achieve the goals, 75-80% of the world's known resources of coal, oil and gas must remain in the ground. If we burn it all, the planet will crater. It looks like we can have a healthy balance sheet in big oil and coal, or a relatively healthy planet – but we cannot have both. But the end of the fossil area might be more than compensated by the growth of the low emission society. IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, predicts there will be 24 million jobs in clean energy by 2030 from 8,1 million in 2015, driven in large measure by efforts to meet carbon reduction targets agreed in Paris.