Committed power plants
“Alexander Pfeiffer at the Oxford Martin School, UK, and co-authors analyse the historic development of emission commitments from power plants to estimate the emissions committed for current and planned plants.” www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0193-y
Fergus Green, “The logic of fossil fuel bans” (2018) Nature Climate Change
"Until recently, national bans on fossil fuel-related activities were a taboo subject, but they are now becoming increasingly common. The logic of appropriateness that underpins such bans is key to understanding their normative appeal, and to explaining and predicting their proliferation."
Frank Jotzo et al, “China’s emissions trading takes steps towards big ambitions”
Mark W. Roberts, “Finishing the job: The Montreal Protocol moves to phase down hydrofluorocarbons”
(2017) 26:3 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 220
https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12225
https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12225
Shipping faces demands to cut CO2
Aligning fossil fuel production with the Paris Agreement
Insights for the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue, by the Stockholm Environment Institute.
A compelling argument for supply-side mitigation policies.
https://www.sei.org/publications/aligning-fossil-fuel-production-paris-agreement/
https://www.sei.org/publications/aligning-fossil-fuel-production-paris-agreement/
Opinion: How Climate Activists Failed to Make Clear the Problem with Natural Gas
"The climate movement’s biggest failure has been its inability to successfully make the case that natural gas is not a clean replacement for other fossil fuels. So as natural gas has boomed, U.S. emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, have increased dramatically."
China beats 2017 coal-fired power capacity reduction target
“China eliminated or suspended 65 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power capacity in 2017, exceeding the national target of 50 GW, the state-owned Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, citing the State Council.”
EU sees higher climate target possible as cost of renewables falls
Reasons for optimism as new technologies may allow greater ambition on climate change mitigation.