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On August 31, 2019, Nadia, a stoic thirty-nine-year-old in pigtails, heard a voice through a loudspeaker on a vehicle circling the Mudd, her tranquil neighborhood in the Bahamas. “Seek shelter!” the voice said. For days, Nadia’s two sons, aged six and ten, had been watching news reports about an incoming storm called Hurricane Dorian, which broadcasters warned would cause historic destruction on the islands. “Mom, a big one’s coming,” Nadia’s ten-year-old, a skinny, bright-eyed math whiz named Kesnel, said. “We’d better board up the windows.” The next day, as the storm descended, Nadia and her sons ran to a local church for refuge. Water rushed over the chapel’s floorboards and rose past the children’s knees. Nadia wished that she could have fled the Bahamas before Dorian hit, but, like several thousands of her fellow-Haitians living there, she was undocumented, and wouldn’t have been allowed to return. (To protect them from gover
The de-carbonisation paradox
By Kemal Derviş and Sebastián Strauss
WASHINGTON, DC Discussions about climate change contain two apparently contradictory messages. One is that it is almost impossible to de-carbonise fully and fast enough to limit global warming this century to well below 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels. The other message is that, given what is at stake, such rapid de-carbonisation is inevitable.
Paradoxically, both statements may be true. Achieving a net-zero global economy by 2050 is technically and economically feasible with existing and emerging technologies, but it requires drastic shifts in behaviour and massive policy interventions, including a degree of international cooperation that will be very difficult to attain. Although faster technological progress can ease some of the social and political barriers to climate action, such innovation alone will not get the world all the way to net zero.
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