Energy: A Whole System Approach
As the world recklessly hurtles towards 2 degrees warming and beyond, the inability of political leaders to decarbonise energy systems is a failure of almost unparalleled proportions. In 2018, the IPCC released a special report highlighting that to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, a carbon budget of 420 GtCO2 remained. Since then, emissions have continued to climb. With current emissions at roughly 42 GtCO2 per year, we have a carbon budget of 294 GtCO2 remaining. A continued failure to decarbonise will result in this carbon budget being exhausted in just 7 years.