All posts tagged "net zero"

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  How’s the UK attempt to reach net zero going? There’s good news and bad news

  Each year, the Climate Change Committee – the UK’s independent advisory body tasked with monitoring the country’s movement toward its legally binding climate goals – gives a report on the

  • Posted July 1, 2025
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  EU ‘on course to achieve 2030 emissions target’

  The European Union is “well on track” to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade. The European Commission’s assessment of National

  • Posted June 5, 2025
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  Global temperatures set to breach 1.5°C threshold over next five years, UN says

  There is a 70% chance that the 5-year average warming for 2025-2029 will exceed the 1.5°C global warming limit set under the Paris Agreement, according to the World Meteorological Organization

  • Posted June 4, 2025
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  Current climate policy ‘doomed to fail’, says former UK PM Tony Blair

  Net zero policies are increasingly viewed as “unaffordable, ineffective, or politically toxic” and efforts to phase out fossil fuels in the short term are “doomed to fail”, according to a

  • Posted May 1, 2025
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  Paris Agreement goals out of reach unless top emitters step up, study warns

  Collective efforts “still fall far short” of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5C of pre-industrial levels, according to research by the World Resources Institute (WRI). The study

  • Posted April 24, 2025
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  UK’s Net Zero Council relaunched with ‘broader range of voices’

  The UK government has relaunched the Net Zero Council and expanded its membership to include civil society and local government. The council – whose remit is to advise government on

  • Posted February 18, 2025
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  Power to the people: Britain’s new state-owned energy firm

  The UK’s new energy secretary Ed Miliband, a former Labour leader who has long championed the net zero agenda, has just set up a state-owned energy firm – reversing privatisation’s

  • Posted November 25, 2024
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  Australian public servants urged to use AI, US government creates standard definition for zero-emission buildings: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence In this edition: Australian public servants urged to use AI at work Patrick Gorman. Image: Australian Government Public servants in

  • Posted June 13, 2024
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  Size of Canadian public service likely to grow despite 5,000 job cut target | Net zero ‘weaponised in culture wars’, climate watchdog warns: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence Size of Canadian public service likely to grow despite 5,000 job cut target The size of the Canadian public service

  • Posted May 2, 2024
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  AI could automate 84% of repetitive service transactions across government, UK half way to net zero: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence AI could help automate around 84% of repetitive service transactions across government A recent report from The Alan Turing Institute

  • Posted April 4, 2024
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