Tag: Paris Agreement
Big Oil Reality Check: Failure To Meet Bare Minimum On Climate
It's time for a Big Oil reality check. In its most recent report, Oil Change International (OIC) exposes once again the fossil fuel sector's...
Glimmer of Climate Hope With a Mix of Cautious Optimism
The results of a recent study provide reason for optimism: The Paris Climate Agreement targets remain within reach in about three-quarters of the 100,000...
Canadian Banks Funding Climate Chaos
Fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris...
“Atlas of Human Suffering” Says UN Secretary General
United Nations secretary general António Guterres calls the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report “an atlas of human suffering”. "The report is a...
Unless We End Financing of Coal, It Will End Us
The 2018 IPCC Report stated emphatically that coal-fired power production worldwide must be reduced by 78% by 2030 to keep the world on a...
Backsliding on Climate: The World Was Right To Be Skeptical
"The political will for painful choices is evaporating fast...turns out the world was right to be skeptical,” Bloomberg writes about expectations coming out of...
Cities for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
In October of 2020, Vancouver became the first city in the world to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT). Then in 2021, Barcelona,...
The Top Five Below2C Posts of 2021
During 2021, 136 articles were posted on Below2C under the broad categories of climate, energy, solutions, environment, fossil banks and socio-politico. The number of...
Denial Is Our Society’s Most Politically Powerful Drug After Fentanyl and Netflix
In his recent Tyee piece about the climate destruction happening in real time in British Columbia, Andrew Nikiforuk writes "that our overly complex and...
Carbon Markets: Climate Solution or Greenwashing
"Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney says carbon markets are booming. By 2030 they could reach a value of up to $100 billion...a...