Climate Response Lacks Ambition

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Overshooting 1.5°C is risky. That's why we need to hedge our bets

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The Paris agreement established the goal of holding global warming to well below 2C , and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C.

To achieve this, greenhouse gas emissions should peak and decline as soon as possible.

Failure to act earlier and more decisively to bring emissions down to net zero has made limiting global warming an uncomfortably close call.

We need to develop a large-scale carbon removal capacity to hedge against high-risk outcomes.

Achieving temperature decline in the long run would limit longer-term climate impacts.

Investing in this kind of removal capability, on top of pursuing the most ambitious emissions cuts possible, is a no-regrets strategy.

But, given potential limits to how much carbon removal we can scale up in time, we also cannot afford to squander this capacity on any emissions that could be avoided.

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