One hundred and thirty men from Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean are now living in a youth hostel because of Covid restrictions and border closures. Following the Kiribati government sealing off borders at the start of the pandemic, authorities in Kiribati have told them they’re doing all they can to get them home.
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Posted on - 2021-03-08Governments must halve emissions by 2030 if they intend the Earth to stay within the 1.5C "safe" threshold, and the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, called it a red alert for our planet. Current proposals are insufficient, and new targets need to be strengthened. Nations such as Australia are judged to have offered no substantial improvement on previous proposals, and they join other nations doing little or nothing in contributing up to 15% of global emissions.
Meanwhile, the EU, Nepal, Argentina, and the UK are strengthening targets, with Britain's Climate Change Act setting ambitions into law, overseen by an independent body on its way to a 2050 Net Zero target.
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Posted on - 2021-03-01Responsible for 2.8% of global CO2 emissions prior to COVID, Aviation must turn attention to first capping and then reducing emissions.
Development of low-carbon fuels (to form 1.5% of all liquid fuel use by 2035) and to increase the price on carbon to at least $NZ140/tCO2 by 2030, up from a spot price of around $39 in late February, 2021. Distance-based departure charges have also been recommended, but sustainable aviation fuel has been deemed the only viable path towards keeping the global aircraft fleet operating.
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Posted on - 2021-03-01