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“Africa needs countries like the US - that are the greatest contributors to the problem - to also contribute the most to helping solve it. “Africa, like other developing regions who suffer disproportionate climate impacts from CO2 historically released by industrialized nations, deserves a lifeline,” said Jerome Ringo, Climate Clock Global Ambassador.
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While President Biden vowed at the UN General Assembly to double US contributions to climate finance, the latest analysis indicates that rich countries will continue to miss the GCF’s $100B/yr pledge for at least another 4 years. The US is specifically under fire from activists for having failed to pay their fair share of climate finance. We have one Deadline, and many Lifelines. We mustn’t pretend we have more time than we do. This is a timeline that no government is yet willing to commit to, but we must do what science and justice demand, not what elected officials or CEOs might deem convenient. Together, the Deadline and Lifeline frame our mission: We must #ActInTime to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and build a 100% renewable future.
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The Clock’s Renewable Energy Lifeline tells us that the percent of global energy coming from renewable sources is currently at 12.5% and rising, but not nearly fast enough. The Clock’s Deadline tells us that, at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, we have less than eight years left in our global “carbon budget” that gives two-thirds chance of staying under the critical threshold of 1.5☌ of global warming. The Deadline and Lifelines on the Climate Clock make explicit the speed and scope of action that political leaders must take in order to limit the worst climate impacts. The good news: there is still time.īacked by the latest science, the Climate Clock tells us what we must do, by when. Decades of increasing carbon emissions ar harming the natural and societal systems upon which humanity depends, threatening untold ecological and human devastation if we do not #ActInTime. The science is clear: we are in a Climate Emergency.