Fossil fuels: World is planning to produce far more than we can safely use
Staying under 1.5°C of warming means limiting the amount of fossil fuel we burn, but global extraction plans are already double that limit
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Staying under 1.5°C of warming means limiting the amount of fossil fuel we burn, but global extraction plans are already double that limit
If the Earth hits 1.5°C of global warming, the U.N. has warned the world can expect "extreme events unprecedented in the observational record."
The world’s nations are planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, the UN said yesterday. Ten days before a climate summit that is being billed as key to the viability of the 2015 Paris Agreement temperature goals, the UN Environment Programme said that government fossil-fuel production plans this decade “are dangerously out of sync” with the emissions cuts needed. Emissions must go down nearly 50 percent by 2030 and to net-zero by the middle of the century to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,...
The UN says emissions must go down nearly 50% by 2030.
If the Earth hits 1.5°C of global warming, the U.N. has warned the world can expect "extreme events unprecedented in the observational record."