CarbonLaw
For COP-26 to succeed, it needs to embrace the Carbon Law for climate change. You’ve probably heard of Moore’s Law for computing – the rule of thumb that computing power doubles every two years; maybe even Swanson’s Law, where the price of solar panels tends to drop 20 percent for every doubling of installed capacity. The Carbon Law, proposed by a team of scientists led by Johan Rockström (of planetary boundaries fame), states that carbon emissions have to halve each decade to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees. With emissions still rising in 2021, the great U-turn cannot wait anymore.
— Wayne Visser
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