On IPCC report: give us constraints and U-turn not targets!
12 min readAug 9, 2021
Released today, the report, which summarises scientists’ understanding of what is happening with climate change, warns that Earth will unavoidably hit the critical threshold of 1.5°C warming due to climate change within the next 20 years. This is a combination of natural processes and human emissions. This is regardless of how radically global governments cut greenhouse gas emissions. This article urgently proposes a new framing approach: a pivot.
Should emissions continue, the Earth will see temperature increases of up to four…