Reading Time: 12 mins22nd April 2022
Author: Robert Watson

1.5°C ... GOING, GOING, GONE!
The Paris Agreement is a landmark international accord that was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015 to address climate change and its negative impacts. The agreement aims to substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2°C above preindustrial levels while pursuing the means to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Source: IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

On current evidence, one could reasonably believe that Earth has possibly reached, or is very close to reaching the critical +1.5°C temperature increase over pre-industrial temperature levels.

Reading Time: 5 mins29th October 2021
Author: Robert Watson

COP26 and AUSTRALIA
The Australian Prime Minister Morrison and Emissions Reduction Minister Taylor represented Australia at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Australia offered no policy ideas, no commitment and was more concerned with the promotion of fossil fuel miner Santos and their plan for carbon capture and storage - an expensive process with very disappointing results ...