Flawed climate change targets miss the mark
According to new research from the University of 新浪彩票 the 2050 target to reduce climate change emissions is too little and too late.
鈥淭he warming goals of Article 2 of the Paris Agreement are too little because the target only specifies what we should do with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and too late because we need to reduce emissions to net-zero well before 2050,鈥 said research author Professor Tom聽Wigley聽from the University of 新浪彩票鈥檚 School of Biological Sciences.
鈥淎rticle 4.1 of the Paris Agreement on climate sets out that the world needs to reach aggregate net-zero GHG emissions produced from human activity some time in the 2050 to 2099 window.
鈥淭he method used by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to determine the net-zero point is based on flawed science as it only considers GHG forcing not total forcing."Professor Tom Wigley
鈥淢y new method for calculating aggregate GHG emissions shows that the net-zero point for these emissions must be reached as early as 2036, which is the point at which GHG radiative forcing 鈥 the direct contribution the emissions make to higher temperatures through the greenhouse effect 鈥 is at its maximum.
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