“Our world needs climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once” according to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The final synthesis report under the IPCC 6th assessment report has been published and can be found at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/. This is the final piece of the 6th Assessment cycle. The IPCC’s next cycle, AR7, …
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The GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard (also known as the Scope 3 Standard) provides requirements and guidance for organisations to develop and publicly report a GHG emissions inventory that includes indirect emissions resulting from value chain activities (i.e., scope 3 emissions). The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard is a …
There are several environmental issues plaguing our world right now, with the biggest and most notorious being climate change. According to the 6th assessment report by the IPCC, the global mean temperature has increased to 1.09°C when comparing the decade 2011 – 2020 with the baseline period of 1850 – 1900. This warming generates severe …
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The Climate Ready Academy’s* “Waste and Circular Economy Leaders Programme” is running for a third series starting in May 2022. Antaris developed and deliver the Waste and Circular Economy Leaders programme as part of the Climate Ready Academy, by Skillnet Ireland in association with Central Solutions. Check out what some of the graduates from the …
Antaris helps SMEs play their part in tackling the climate crisis. The climate emergency requires action from all of us. Everyone has a role to play to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up most of the global economy, about 90% of businesses. According to the World Bank, …
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) have launched their corporate net-zero standard. The standard can be found at https://sciencebasedtargets.org/resources/files/Net-Zero-Standard.pdf Antaris are advocates of science-based targets and we think they are a great tool to plan for decarbonisation. We have committed to reducing our absolute scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions 50% by 2030 from …
Here’s my interpretation of our future according to Chatham House’s report entitled Climate change risk assessment 2021. Chatham House, (yes, they do more than set rules for disclosure at meetings), published the report in September with its headline findings that: The world is dangerously off-track to meet the Paris Agreement goals The risks are compounding, …
I recently reviewed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Sixth Assessment report (https://antarisconsulting.com/the-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc-sixth-assessment-report/) which stated that climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. Unprecedented changes are being observed in every region and across the whole climate system as evidenced by the following: CO₂ concentration is the highest in at least 2 million years. …
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Cop26 is the 26th conference of the parties to the UN framework convention on climate change, the parent treaty to the 2015 Paris Agreement. World governments conducted their first conference (COP1) in Berlin in 1975. Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), practically every country on Earth committed itself to avoid …
Climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying, according to an influential UN report released in early August. This is the stark forecast in the Sixth Assessment Cycle report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. …
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