Climate change

[[G20]] governments, comprising the world’s biggest economies and including developed and developing countries, are responsible for about 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and about 85% of GDP.

Since 1988, when human-induced climate change was officially recognized by the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ([[IPCC]])

– [[Revolution or Ruin]]

The response

Potential social formations

The book [[Climate Leviathan]] gives a nice exposition of four types of climate crisis response, if you class them on the axes of capitalist vs non-capitalist and pro- or anti- planetary sovereignty. (I don't fully grasp the idea of planetary sovereignty just yet).

Cost

The most comprehensive analysis of the path to net zero was published by the [[Climate Change Committee]] (CCC), the UK government’s statutory adviser, which has repeatedly said the costs of action are small and diminishing, at less than 1% of GDP by 2050, while the costs of inaction are large and rising.

– ‘It’s all a bit cynical’: the politicians behind the Tory attack on net zero …

Dr Ajay Gambhir, a senior research fellow at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, said that as innovation accelerated, even the CCC’s costings were probably an overestimate and did not take account of the many co-benefits of climate action, including cleaner air and water, more [[biodiversity]], millions of well-paid [[green jobs]] and lower [[energy bills]].

– ‘It’s all a bit cynical’: the politicians behind the Tory attack on net zero …