It's a unique moment to be alive. Both the problems and the solutions are bigger than ever before. But so is the power of determined people who unite for change.
The world’s top climate scientists just delivered their rescue plan for humanity, directly to our governments. The Working Group III Report contribution to Sixth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change focuses on how to reduce further warming and follows the first two reports of the assessment, on the physical science and climate change impacts.
compared to current policies. This means designing and repurposing infrastructure, advancing technology adoption and enhancing socio-cultural factors that enable and reward sustainable ways of life from walkable and bikeable cities and shared and electrified mobility to self-sustaining homes, healthy plant-based diets, avoided flights, and to consumption requiring less material input as we reuse, repair and improve recycling.
The challenges that need to be overcome, overall, are not small. Meeting the Paris Agreement goals would strand fossil fuel assets, with the economic impacts amounting to. Hence, countries, businesses and individuals, who stand to lose wealth, may resist change. Therefore, ensuring the decision-making process is not unduly influenced by actors with much to lose is key to managing transformation.
In just three years since 2017 the number of climate litigation cases nearly doubled. And the IPCC finds that “there is now increasing academic agreement that climate litigation has become a powerful force in climate governance.”These were some of our highlights from the IPCC report. But there’s much, much more! And it’s all highly recommended reading.It’s a unique moment to be alive. Both the problems and the solutions are bigger than ever before.
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