In the Drawdown meeting, Exponential Roadmap’s Johan Falk told the audience,
The starting point in our narrative is we need to face the blind fact we are entering a climate crisis, we risk a hothouse earth future. We think it’s very important to face reality as a starting point. When science says what is required to save the climate, can we say that in a simpler way than a lot of different IPCC curves and so on? Well, it’s basically about we must halve emissions by 2030, in ten years cut it by two and every decade after that. Three halvings to approach close to net-zero by 2050. So that’s an easy rule of thumb. And it’s called the global carbon law. It was released about two, three years ago by a number of scientists, Potsdam Institute and so on. It’s very much inspired by Moore’s law, which you are familiar with.
There are so many conferences going on about climate change right now it is almost as though it were a new class of tourism. Sixteen-year-old Swedish school striker Greta Thunberg is in New York for the UN Secretary General’s annual high-level strategy meeting. Her crossing the Atlantic in a speed catamaran was less about having a smaller carbon footprint — it was…