Climate change

planted: 09/08/2021last tended: 04/10/2022

G20 governments, comprising the world’s biggest economies and including developed and developing countries, are responsible for about 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and about 85% of GDP.

Since 1988, when human-induced climate change was officially recognized by the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

– Revolution or Ruin

1. The response

1.1. Potential social formations

The book Climate Leviathan gives a nice exposition of four types of climate crisis response, if you class them on the axes of capitalist vs non-capitalist and pro- or anti- planetary sovereignty. (I don't fully grasp the idea of planetary sovereignty just yet).

1.2. Cost

The most comprehensive analysis of the path to net zero was published by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government’s statutory adviser, which has repeatedly said the costs of action are small and diminishing, at less than 1% of GDP by 2050, while the costs of inaction are large and rising.

– ‘It’s all a bit cynical’: the politicians behind the Tory attack on net zero …

Dr Ajay Gambhir, a senior research fellow at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, said that as innovation accelerated, even the CCC’s costings were probably an overestimate and did not take account of the many co-benefits of climate action, including cleaner air and water, more biodiversity, millions of well-paid green jobs and lower energy bills.

– ‘It’s all a bit cynical’: the politicians behind the Tory attack on net zero …

Climate change

1. The response

1.1. Potential social formations

1.2. Cost

2. Elsewhere

2.1. In my garden

2.2. In the Agora

2.3. Mentions