New global climate report shakes: “Continuing as before is not an option”. Radical savings required.
The statements of the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are clear: without a radical and immediate reduction of greenhouse gases harmful to the climate, it will not be possible to contain global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees. There is a threat of an even greater increase in extreme events such as drought, heat, intense precipitation, landslides and floods.
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Can green zero still be reached? “We are at a crossroads. The decisions we are making now can ensure a future worth living,” IPCC President Hoesung Lee said on Monday as part of the presentation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Change’s sixth assessment report. climate.
For global warming to be limited to 1.5 degrees, total global emissions must be net zero by the early 2050s and 2 degrees by the early 2070s.
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Emergency Brake Time: Get Out of Fossils
Climate science agrees: climate policy must be prioritized and not postponed because of acute crises. “Continuing as before is not an option,” said WWF climate spokesperson Thomas Zehetner. “Getting out of the fossils is our only chance!”
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The construction sector in particular is a huge driver of climate change. According to the IPCC, 60% of building emissions can be reduced by 2050, for example by renovating old buildings. Fossil fuels are currently subsidized with 400 billion euros a year worldwide, this money must be redirected and invested in renewables.
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Required Power Transition Pack
Greenpeace Austria also called for “ending the fossil age as soon as possible”. The climate report shows that the temperature rise can be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius with existing technologies, thus curbing global warming. However, this requires an “end of coal, oil and gas: energy sources that not only fuel the climate crisis but also the wars. Austria and other countries must act quickly and improve their climate protection plans”.
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The Global 2000 “missed a lot on a federal government energy transition package that freed us from oil and gas.” Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and the entire federal government are called upon to swiftly pass the Renewable Heat Act so that oil and gas heating systems can be replaced by green heating systems and the energy transition to solar and wind energy and The heat supply picks up speed,” said Johannes Wahlmüller, climate spokesperson for Global 2000.
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