Houston, we have a problem

Not only is spaceship Earth badly off the 2020 trajectory needed to stay below 2°C, it is just about to drift further away from the safe pathway. That was the message yesterday from UNEP in the Structured Expert Dialogue: the gigatonne gap looks to just grow as we approach 2025 and 2030. If you consider warnings by the IPCC and others that the 2°C limit may still be too high and risky, then the situation looks even worse. But fortunately we do have the survival kit still within our reach. As ECO learned from the IEA, 80% of the 2020 … Continue reading Houston, we have a problem