vrijdag, december 11, 2009
Remember - 14 Giga Tons
ighting through the hot air being vented in Copenhagen to understand the real numbers is an obligation, not just a ‘nice to do’. Project Catalyst, an international policy platform that I have been working with for over 18 months, has produced what I think is simply the best piece that crystallises the data in a document entitled ‘Taking Stock: the Emissions Levels Implied by the Current Proposals for Copenhagen’.14GTs is what we have to mitigate by 2020 below ‘business as usual’ to have a 40-60% chance of keeping temperature rises below 2 degrees. This then is the magic number we have to make vanish, below which species disappear and whole eco-systems are predicted to collapse with unknown consequences.
Read on | OpenDemocracy Copenhagen Blog
See also | Taking stock – the emission levels
implied by the current proposals for
Copenhagen - Report by 'Project Catalyst
Labels: Climate Change, Copenhagen
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