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Key points on the climate emergency UN Secretary-General: "Governments are lying" IPCC 2021: the global carbon budget will run out in 9 years The UK's share of the carbon budget will run out in 3 years Commentary on "Zero carbon sooner" briefing paper from CUSP Young people are pleading for help Greta Thunberg's 'blah blah blah' speech, Milan, 2021

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Climate emergency ten-point action plan Why progress has been so poor Decision making has been systematically poor All sections of society are failing It is a system failure rather than a failure of individuals Cognitive biases, flawed reasoning and fallacies dominate opinions and decision making Decision making needs to improve Effective versus ineffective campaigning Challenge fallacies, incompetence and misconduct Climate Urgency Realism or Denial score Climate urgency denial in UK Government scientists

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The UK Net Zero strategy would take three times the UK's share of the global CO2 budget Common climate fallacies

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Action needed

Allocation of the residual global carbon budget between nations Stop burning fossil fuels: Stay within the IPCC CO2 budget of 50 tonnes per person Planting trees is not the answer Tree planting claims by Zurich scientists were withdrawn 'Offsetting' is not the answer Electric vehicles: not the immediate answer 'Hydrogen power' is not the answer Reduce your carbon footprint: 10% per year

Ensuring good decision making

Nolan's Seven Principles of Public Life The 'Net Zero 2050' UK Government deceits UK Government deceit: overclaiming the reduction in UK CO2 emissions Civil disobedience in a democracy: Q and A Civil disobedience and the law Extinction Rebellion

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The climate crisis and what to do about it

Climate change: the basics Global emissions are rising and governments are failing Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already

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Summary Local government Local government: Make walking safe National government Organisations Individuals Passivhaus home standards

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Leaflets, video

Reasons for optimism

Decline in UK domestic aviation Decline of domestic aviation in Sweden

Tecnicalities by sector

The UK has not cut its greenhouse gas emissions

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Performance assessments

Assessing performance on the climate emergency BEIS is not telling the truth on carbon emissions Transport for the North: Failing on the climate crisis Steve Rotheram: failing on the climate crisis

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Wirral Council's emission reduction trajectory

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Actions by organisations

Every organisation should be looking at its energy use and trying to improve its energy efficiency.

Many businesses and other organisations heat buildings to an unnecessary extent. They could lower temperatures towards the minimum 16 degrees specified by law.

Other examples:

Oxfam used to raise money through its Global Challenge programme around the world, but has switched these to the UK or Europe reachable by train out of concern for the environmental impact.
the Ski Club of Great Britain (www.skiclub.co.uk) has a Respect the Mountain feature on its website encouraging members to fly fewer miles, and switch from air to rail.

First published: 2008
Last updated: 15 Jul 2019