Study: World Falling Behind In Every Area Needed To Cut Carbon, Lessen Climate Crash Impact

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Coal must be phased out seven times faster than is now happening, deforestation must be reduced four times faster, and public transport around the world built out six times faster than at present, if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate breakdown, new research has found. Countries are falling behind on almost every policy required to cut greenhouse gas emissions, despite progress on renewable energy and the uptake of electric vehicles.

This failure makes the prospect of holding global temperatures to 1.5C above preindustrial levels even more remote, according to the State of Climate Action 2023 report. The authors advise that world needs to:

Retire about 240 average-sized coal-fired power plants a year, every year between now and 2030.

Construct the equivalent of three New Yorks’ worth of public transport systems in cities around the world each year this decade.

Halt deforestation, which is happening to an area the size of 15 football pitches every minute, this decade.

Increase the rate of growth of solar and wind power from its current high of 14% a year to 24% a year.

Cut meat consumption from ruminants such as cows and sheep to about two servings a week in the US, Europe and other high-consuming countries by 2030.

The prospect of staying within 1.5C will slip away altogether without drastic action, the authors warned. Sophie Boehm, research associate at the World Resources Institute and lead author of the report, said: “Global efforts to limit warming to 1.5C are lacklustre at best. Despite decades of dire warnings and wake-up calls, our leaders have largely failed to mobilise climate action anywhere near the pace and scale needed. Such delays leave us with very few routes to secure a livable future for all.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/14/world-behind-on-almost-every-policy-required-to-cut-carbon-emissions-research-finds

[Voltaire2]

1. Don't look up.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. I can't believe human kind is still burning coal

We are destroying our human habitat so that the filthy-rich can continue to take away our national wealth. And we can't even get some stinking rich owners to stop using an obvious contributor to that destruction. Real good plan there.

It's all due to capitalism. It's a stagnant, unresponsive and dangerous economic system that supports the destruction of a livable world for humankind. And all we get for this total destruction is a few already rich people getting even richer.

Stupid plan.....

[Think. Again.]

3. Well said.