Here’s the ‘energy transition’ needed to stave off climate catastrophe

Image credit: Mark Segal / Getty Images. Article by Kate Yoder. Grist – March 23, 2022.

The world has a 50/50 chance of keeping climate change to relatively safe levels, a new report says — but only if there are drastic cuts to fossil fuel production, effective immediately. The analysis, from researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the United Kingdom, found that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) requires more stringent emissions cuts than what any country is currently considering. […]

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