Scientists who wrote the IPCC report are saying that the report has been misinterpreted by popular media. It was widely reported that the global emissions will peak by the year 2025, and then it’ll start to fall.
The scientists say it was unfortunate that such misleading terminology was used, because they did not mean that we can keep the emissions going up for three more years. Scientists measure the global temperature and emissions in chunks of 5 years and what was meant by the 2025 limit was that we need start reducing our emissions between 2020 and 2025, it is supposed to hit a peak sometime in these 5 years.
To achieve the goal of keeping the temperature from increasing beyond 1.5 degrees celsius is possible if we need to cut our emissions by 43% by the year 2030, which is a very ambitious goal especially now that we had two years of global pandemic which brought all the efforts to a grinding halt.
"We have eight years to nearly halve global emissions. That's an enormous task, but still doable, as the IPCC has just reminded us - but if people now start chasing emissions peaks by 2025 as some kind of benchmark, we don't have a chance. We definitely don't have the luxury of letting emissions grow for yet another three years," said Kaisa Kosonen from Greenpeace
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