"The key question on which the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, in 2022, reached hard-won scientific consensus was when CO2 emissions need to peak for a realistic chance of keeping global temperature increases below 1.5C, the target set by the 2015 Paris agreement as too dangerous to exceed. The answer, given great prominence in the report and the media coverage of it, was this year, 2025."
"Over to a representative sample of UK MPs (admittedly taken before the last general election), who were asked which year emissions had to peak to avoid exceeding 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Offered five-year intervals up to 2050, only 15 of the 100 surveyed answered correctly, while 30% said 2040 or later. Labour MPs were more likely to know the correct answer than Conservatives."
Members of parliament should be among the best informed about the imminent threat of climate breakdown because droughts and storms affect their constituents. Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 requires an informed cross-party debate. The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reached scientific consensus that CO2 emissions must peak in 2025 to have a realistic chance of keeping global temperature increases below 1.5C. A representative sample of 100 UK MPs, surveyed before the last general election, were asked when emissions must peak. Only 15 answered correctly, 30% said 2040 or later, and Labour MPs were more likely to answer correctly than Conservative MPs.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]