Climate & Environment
Governments need to be more ambitious to address global warming issues, says expert
IPCC member Peter Thorne points to ‘major gap’ between between emissions reductions needed and governments’ pledges
Any hope of staying below 1.5 degrees of global warming is already “dead in the water”, climate experts have told the Business Post as the COP 27 climate conference gets under way.
COP 27, the United Nations climate conference, is taking place in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt over the next two weeks. Government delegations from around the world will try to increase their ambition for emission reductions, as well as increase the finance channelled ...