It's now or never if we want to limit global warming,says Jim Skea, the co-chair of a panel studying the effects and consequences of global warming for the UN. Without immediate emissions reduction across all sectors, including the automotive sector, he claims that change will be impossible.
Skea is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which just released its latest report today. It finds that limiting warming to around 1.5°C (2.7°F) will require global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025. After that, they’ll have to be reduced by 43 percent by 2030 and even then the global temperature is likely to rise higher than that temporarily.
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