“Climate change is running faster than we are — and we are running out of time.” That is the stark conclusion of the long-awaited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on global warming. “Pledges from the world’s governments to reduce greenhouse gases, made in Paris in 2015, aren’t enough to keep global warming from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius,” says the report, which is focused on highlighting the significant difference in impact on life between a 1.5 and 2 degree increase in global temperatures. Despite essentially sounding the climate alarm, the report manages to remain optimistic about our ability to limit warming, but only with a major, immediate and global response. The report suggests that the 1.5-degree Celsius goal would require a 40-50% reduction in emissions by 2030. Then, by 2050, it would require a carbon-neutral world, one with no net additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, by 2050. Consider that global […]