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CO25: Verdens viktigste påvirker

Posted on December 7, 2019December 23, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

– Man skal ikke undervurdere sinte barn, sa Greta Thunberg…

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COP25: Nye rapporter legger press på forhandlerne

Posted on December 5, 2019December 6, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

Verden satte ny utslippsrekord i 2019 – Naturgass er verstingen.…

Climate change

COP25: En reisende i Klima

Posted on December 5, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

Svein Tveitdal utenfor det landlige hjemmet sitt i Froland, der…

Erna Solbergs åpningstale på COP25 i Madrid

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COP25: En talende forskjell

Posted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

Statsminister Erna Solberg sier hun vil vente med å bruke…

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COP25: Særinteressenes verden

Posted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

Makt og avhengighet er to sider av samme sak. Politikere…

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COP25: For lite, for seint

Posted on November 29, 2019December 23, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

24 klimatoppmøter siden 1995 har ikke resultert i utslippsreduksjoner som…

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Håp eller katastrofe i Gloppen

Posted on November 25, 2019November 25, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

Klimakrisa var tema då forfattar Sigbjørn Mostue og tidlegare direktør…

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Growing gap between ambition and action

Posted on November 25, 2019November 25, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

The embarrassing truth is that the gap between what scientists…

Climate change

Indus Special | UN Climate Action Summit

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

Svein Tveitdal and other experts in conversation about the UN…

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GRID-Arendal: How it all started

Posted on September 5, 2019September 5, 2019
by Svein Tveitdal

GRID-Arendal has been operating and disseminating environmental information and data…

The Paris Climate Agreement 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. To have reasonable chances to achieve this, global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced sharply. With the current emissions (2016) we have only 4 years left to have a 50% chance to limit warming to 1.5 °C and 23 years to stabilize on 2 °C by the end of the century. Current pledges made by signatories to the Paris agreement may result in a warming from 2,7-3,6°C , and must be sharpened considerably. The Paris Climate Agreement represent major threats and opportunities for the business sector. To achieve the new global climate goals, 75% 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