Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social &Tyndall colleagues. Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below)
Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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![The image is a slide from Kevin Anderson's July 2011 to UK government's DFID agency. The slide is titled "Why does this [Anderson's analysis of what urgent climate action was needed at the time] differ from 'standard' analyses?" in the science.
The 5th of 6 bullets is: "Socolow's Wedges are wrong way round (need early action)"
The other bullets are:
Growth rate to peak emissions (1-2% CCC etc. real 3, 4% or higher);
Peak year assumptions (2010-2016: Stern 2015, CCC 2016) (China & India peak -2017);
Rate of emission reduction order of magnitude more challenging;
Technology (esp. supply) very limited to deliver in time for Annex 1; and, 6th:
'Net' Costs are meaningless (non-marginal mitigation & adaptation)".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvdzz5zq4gpybvukzyep63z2/bafkreiace3fdqeoqcdplphjhuvtwpk65smaaltlyydupdscvmoi55o25vq)
