Op-Ed: Is there still time for COP27 to hold back climate catastrophe? (via latimesopinion)
however, finds that the international community is falling short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway yet in place to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. It estimates that current policies point to a 2.8-degree Celsius rise by the end of the century . More encouraging, ain Nature shows that warming could be held below 2.0 degrees Celsius if all pledges — unconditional and conditional — were implemented in full and on time.
That means there is both an ambition gap — current pledges are not nearly ambitious enough — and an implementation gap — countries do not have sufficient policies in place to make good even on those promises.We don’t have to watch climate change destroy the world. We have ways to stop it — and must do whatever we can, resisting individually and together.
In that context, perhaps the most urgent goal for COP27 is to reckon with the lunacy of continued fossil fuel expansion. The International Energy Agency and other researchers have concluded that
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