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Removing Carbon Now: How can companies and individuals fund negative emissions technologies in a safe and effective way to help solve the climate crisis?

19/08/2020

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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Carbon removals are an important part of the solution of the climate crisis, hundreds of gigatons of CO2 will likely need to be removed from the atmosphere this century with the help of a wide range of negative emission technologies. This paper sets out to answer which negative emissions techniques are available on the market […]

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Media briefing

Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled displacement

02/12/2019

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk. Eighty percent of those displaced in the last decade live in Asia, home to […]

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Research report

Impacts of Low Aggregate INDCs Ambition: Research commissioned by Oxfam

25/11/2015

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Ahead of COP21 in Paris, countries have tabled their emissions reductions pledges in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). New Oxfam-commissioned research, carried out by Climate Analytics, uses modelling to assess the impact of aggregate INDC ambition. It estimates that 3 C of warming, compared with 2 C of warming, could mean that […]

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Media briefing

Game-Changers in the Paris Climate Deal: What is needed to ensure a new agreement helps those on the front lines of climate change

25/11/2015

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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There is likely to be a climate deal in Paris. The emission pledges that more than 150 governments have put on the table this year show that global climate ambition is increasing. But much more is needed, as it’s a deal that could still lead to around 3 C of warming. New Oxfam-commissioned research estimates […]

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Removing Carbon Now: How can companies and individuals fund negative emissions technologies in a safe and effective way to help solve the climate crisis?

Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled displacement

Impacts of Low Aggregate INDCs Ambition: Research commissioned by Oxfam

Game-Changers in the Paris Climate Deal: What is needed to ensure a new agreement helps those on the front lines of climate change