Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Fossil fuels
should be phased out by 2100 says IPCC
Another report on
climate change. This time it states more specifically and strongly.
The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reports that the world
faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage if no decisive and immediate
actions are taken. The report clearly states that renewable energies must grow
from their current 30% share to 80% of the power sector by 2050 and fossil fuel
power generation technology needs to be phased out by the end of the century,
otherwise, global temperatures are expected to increase by 5 degrees Celsius above
pre-industrial levels. That increase is far beyond the 2 degrees target
acknowledged in 2009 as the threshold of dangerous climate change.
However, there aren’t
so many leaders or politicians who would dare to take a risk to bring in such
unpopular and painful topic to discussion or election. Economic growth seems to
increase their popularity and prosperity as well as global temperatures, doesn’t
it?
Enjoy reading and
learning about this new warning by the UN’s workgroup.
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