Global Warming

Climate change includes both global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century, humans have had unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.The largest driver of warming is the emission of greenhouse gases, of which more than 90% are carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. Fossil fuel burning (coal, oil, and gas) for energy consumption is the main source of these emissions, with additional contributions from agriculture, deforestation, and industrial processes. The human cause …

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Fraser Institute · 29 October 2024 English

This essay examines the implications of decarbonizing Canada’s electricity grid by replacing existing fossil fuel-based generation with clean energy sources. In 2023, clean energy sources—including hydro, nuclear, and wind—produced 497.6 …

How the Culture War Subsumed Efforts to Curb Global Warming. Foreign Affairs (July 25). <https:// www.foreignaffairs


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 24 October 2024 English

If fully exploited, oil and gas reserves set to be licensed for exploration in the next six months would emit 15 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

fossil fuel projects is a key step in limiting global warming to 1.5°C and transitioning away from fossil space for new oil and gas fields under a 1.5°C global warming limit. Even under current policy settings,


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 9 October 2024 English

Governments are increasingly recognizing the need for sustainability standards in global value chains (GVCs), as pressures from consumers and due diligence regulations in the Global North require businesses to address …

sustainable economy and with the limiting of global warming to 1.5° C in accordance with the Paris Agreement”


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

2015 Canada signs the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to two degrees above pre-industrial levels and cause environmental effects, including global warming.17 Petropoetics contradicts Indigenous knowl- not only to fend off the worst effects of global warming but also to right and repair historical wrongs


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 September 2024 English

G20 governments provided at least USD 168 billion in public financial support for renewable power in 2023, less than one third of G20 fossil fuel subsidies that year. Advanced G20 …

First, a pathway consistent with keeping global warming to 1.5°C requires a rapid energy transition:


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 September 2024 English

Solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind are now the cheapest options for new power generation, but enabling policies are still needed to speed up deployment, particularly in lower income countries. …

meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC from pre-industrial levels by the


Fraser Institute · 27 September 2024 English

Recently, many developed economies, including Canada and the US, have implemented major government programs to promote the growth of specific industries and sectors including electronic vehicles (EVs) and the critical …

Evidence-Based Approach to Pricing CO2 Emissions. The Global Warming Policy Foundation. <https://www.thegwpf.or


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 September 2024 English

All names, views and claims expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated organizations, …

shellfish is important for the mitigation of global warming. In the six papers that assessed the value respondents’ degree of support for the theory of global warming caused by an increase in carbon dioxide and


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 19 September 2024 English

In August 2024, 11 oil and gas exploration licences were awarded across three countries.

fossil fuel projects is a key step in limiting global warming to 1.5°C and transitioning away from fossil


School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 17 September 2024 English

8 MITIGATING ENTERIC METHANE EMISSIONS: OPTIONS AND STRATEGIES. [...] 8 CARBON OFFSETS AND 3-NOP SUPPLEMENTATION FOR METHANE REDUCTION. [...] .9 MITIGATING DIRECT FERTILIZER-BASED EMISSIONS: OPTIONS AND STRATEGIES. [...] 10 CARBON …

“Atmospheric Methane: Its Contribution to Global Warming.” Applied Energy, 40(4), 273–313. https://doi


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