Part Four / What We’ve Done About It

4.23 This is where we draw the line

All online sources accessed on

  1. According to the United Nations Emissions Gap report SEI, IISD, ODI, E3G, and UNEP. (2021). The Production Gap Report 2021. http://productiongap.org/2021report .

  2. expected to rise by another 16 per cent https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2021_08E.pdf.

    on track to have a world that is 3.2°C hotter Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. P. R. Shukla, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/.

    flawed and under-reported numbers
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/climate/cities-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/greenhouse-gas-emissions-pledges-data/

    We are ‘seemingly light years away’ Dennis, B., ‘ What you need to know about the U.N. COP26 climate summit – and why it matters’, Washington Post, 6 October 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/06/cop26-glasgow-un-climate-talks/.