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Blasting News

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021
by Klima 2020

Blasting news spoke with Svein Tveitdal, Director of klima 2020,…

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Paris to mark the fifth anniversary of the climate agreement

Posted on December 14, 2020December 14, 2020
by Klima 2020

My comments to TRT World on the occasion of the…

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“This is not a climate emergency, it’s a climate catastrophe”

Posted on December 14, 2020December 14, 2020
by Klima 2020

Sasja Beslik wanted to take a step back and get…

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Klimavarsleren

Posted on December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
by Klima 2020

Tanken på framtida til barnebarna, gjøre meg sint og engstelig…

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Er det fortsatt mulig å løse klimakrisa ?

Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
by Klima 2020

Opptak fra webinar fra Besteforeldrenes Klimaaksjon.

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Energy transition: What can the Middle East learn from Norway?

Posted on October 28, 2020October 30, 2020
by Klima 2020

What can the Middle East learn from Norway? Lesson no…

Biodiversity and Climate - Svein Tveitdal on TRT News

Biodiversity

World has failed to meet a single biodiversity target for a second consecutive decade

Posted on October 6, 2020October 15, 2020
by Klima 2020

Svein Tveitdal Live on TRT News on why the world…

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RENEWABLE REVOLUTION – Fremtidens Næringsliv

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

Financing the green shift requires the same cooperative effort that…

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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

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Child health & environment

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

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

Status 2032 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.