Is this the incentive we need? — IPCC Climate Report
The IPCC is currently conducting a study in South Korea — and it is likely to report that keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius is possible — with immediate, radical action. Could this finally be the thing that kickstarts the green revolution, with governments not just meeting targets but far exceeding them? I’m sceptical, but optimistic at the same time.
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4 min readOct 3, 2018
Now, this report is highly controversial, for several reasons. Many question the feasibility of keeping warming under 1.5 degrees for the century, and the methods that the IPCC is likely to suggest are unpopular. On top of that is the element of politics: researchers from oil-rich regions are likely to defend fossil fuels and declare that we are past the point of no return, while scientists from resource-poor nations will declare that we can reach the 1.5 degrees mark.
But the IPCC is certainly credible. It uses all of the available literature to make reports, and sends drafts out to government and scientists for comment. All of this is taken on board, and a broad consensus is reached. So, if this report does find that keeping…
