Focusing on Sustainability

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The UNEP Global Cooling Watch report demonstrates the potential and the pathways to achieve near-zero emissions from cooling. Using a model created specifically for this report, it presents pathways to get to near-zero emissions in the key cooling sectors and provides a call to action for countries to pursue the policies and strategies that have the greatest impact in reducing cooling-related emissions and advancing sustainable cooling for all. 

Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate the vast amounts of cash needed to tackle the climate crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said...

The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think-tank that researches solutions for the world's biggest problems. You can see their Top Outcomes here. 

The UN global stocktake is a critical turning point when it comes to efforts to address climate change – it’s a moment to take a long, hard look at the state of our planet and chart a better course for the future. 

Wren is for anyone who wants to tackle the climate crisis but isn't sure where to start.

First you understand your own impact, and how that fits into the world. Then they help you reduce and offset your footprint while pushing the systems around you to change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

 The AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 was initially published as a guide for policy makers in March 2023. It is the output of some eight to nine years of detailed research. The report suggests possible ways to limit climate change. The transformation required is very large, as the previous AR6 section reports have already stressed.  

The three AR6 report volumes supporting the Synthesis Report have been produced by three Working Groups and were published between August 2021 and April 2022, with each one making news headlines around the world about the need for humanity to respond to climate change. IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (the first part of the overall report) was published on 9 August, 2021. The second part of AR6, focusing on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was published on 28 February 2022 with the third part, focusing on Mitigation of Climate Change, published on 4 April 2022. 

The challenge we face is now even clearer than it was when the IPCC’s last previous major assessment, AR5, was published in 2013-14. The Earth has warmed over a tenth of a degree since then; it is now approximately 1.1ºC (2ºF) hotter than it was in the second half of the 19th century. Even if all countries cut their greenhouse-gas emissions dramatically (and they are not yet on a consistent downward trend of any kind) the IPCC states that temperatures are most likely to be 1.5ºC higher than they were in the 19th century by 2050 - if not before. 

In May 2021 the IEA published a landmark report, outlining what is required globally to achieve Net Zero by 2050. You can access their 2021 Report here.

The IEA updated this Report in September 2023.

The IEA believes that meeting this goal requires a significant transformation of the global economy over the next three decades.

This report is part of the IEA’s support of the first global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, which will be finalized in the run up to COP28, the next UN Climate Change Conference, at the end of 2023. Find other reports in this series on the IEA’s Global Energy Transitions Stocktake page.

In March 2023 the IEA launched a tracking database of CO2 capture, transport, storage, and utilisation projects worldwide...

This piece from the World Economic Forum (the WEF) discusses  a "circular bioeconomy of wellbeing". 

The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People is an intergovernmental group of 60 countries co-chaired by Costa Rica and France and by the United Kingdom as Ocean co-chair, championing a global deal for nature and people with the central goal of protecting at least 30 percent of world’s land and ocean by 2030.

The Sustainable Markets Initiative was launched in 2021, and is gathering a global ‘coalition of the willing’ who share a vision for the world to accelerate global progress towards a sustainable future.

In this BBC Business Daily Podcast from 2021, Manuela Saragosa speaks with economist Mariana Mazzucato, who argues that America’s Apollo programme, which landed people on the moon in the 1960s, has a lot to teach us about tackling some of the biggest economic challenges on earth today. The discussion focuses on a bold and visionary state which would take on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, among others.