IPCC Report Reveals Urgent Need For CEOs To Act On Climate

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a sobering report this week detailing the dramatic effects of climate change and the immediate steps we need to take to make significant progress on limiting warming in the future. The report makes it clear that apathy and inaction are no longer viable options. Unprecedented action is needed by both the public and private sector to transform our energy, transportation and other systems around the world.

Corporate CEOs have the clout and credibility to lead
the charge for climate action while our federal
 government lags behind.

Could this report finally be the clarion call to our nation’s business leaders to take responsibility for ensuring a prosperous and clean energy future for all?

There has been encouraging progress to date, but much more needs to be done. Businesses have an essential role to play in building political will for action, which may be the biggest challenge of all. Moreover, new research shows corporate stakeholders want – and expect – climate leadership, including policy advocacy.

Read the story by Tom Murray from Forbes magazine -“IPCC Report Reveals Urgent Need For CEOs To Act On Climate.”

President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive.

November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2℃ slipped out of reach.

President Donald Trump can, and likely will, drop out of the Paris climate agreement. Direct withdrawal will take four years.

But Trump could instead drop out from the overall climate convention under which the agreement operates. That would only take one year and would result in automatic withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

It would shortcut any hopes that Paris would bind Trump’s hands for some time.

As I’ve argued in my research, a US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement would be its death knell.

 

Read the thoughts of a Lecturer in International Relations and Environmental Policy at the Australian National University, Luke Kemp, on The Conversation -  “President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive.”

'Blown' our chance to curb climate change

We’ve had a chance to curb climate change. But we’ve blown it.

So say researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, who have looked more closely at the pledges made by individual countries at last December’s climate conference in Paris to reduce their carbon emissions. Those pledges, they say, are bound to lead to a global temperature rise of between 2.6°C and 3.1°C by the end of the century. “In fact,” they point out, based on the findings of a new study, “the entire carbon budget for limiting warming to below 2°C might have been emitted by 2030.”

Read the Clean Malaysia story - “We’ve missed the boat on Climate Change.”