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We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide
(The one exception involves converting an area more than half the size of the United States to forest.
None of the scenarios imagines that we can reach the 1.5 degrees Celsius target by cutting emissions alone.)
This sounds like great news, and is without doubt worlds better than the status quo ante of no ambitions at all.
To avoid exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, emissions need to fall 7.6 percent every year for the next 10 years.
Even with the pandemic-induced slowdown, global emissions shrank only 6.4 percent in 2020.