Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!
This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.
We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.
News you can’t miss: This week saw the release of two important reports: (1) The UN’s Emission Gap report for 2020 and (2) the Global Carbon Projects Carbon Budget for 2020. None of the reports are particularly happy reading. As Greta says, we’re still speeding as fast as we possibly be can in the wrong direction. But there’s hope. If countries chose to incorporate a green recovery plan into their COVID response and recovery plan then 2020 will mark the year where the world started taking the climate crisis serious. This week also marked the 5 year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and let’s just say there’s good and bad news surrounding that one too. Finally, a big U.S. offset company is being blamed for protecting trees that doesn’t really need protection and therefore selling useless offsets.
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