Technology Alone Is Moving Too Slowly to Make Climate-Change Target - MIT

One of the key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released last week was that we need to emit no more than one trillion tons of carbon in order to stand a good chance of limiting global warming to 2 °C.

Unfortunately, we’re on track to hit one trillion tons just 27 years from now.  And if we keep increasing the rate of emissions as we have been, we’ll hit it even sooner.  To avoid this, the world needs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2.5 percent a year, according to data from climate scientists at Oxford University.  That figure seems like a nice, manageable one until you realize what order of change would be required to achieve it.

Technology Alone Is Moving Too Slowly to Make Climate-Change Target - MIT