Economy
FT Climate Change Calculator, illustrates how hard getting below 1.5°C will be #1o5C
From the Financial Times: “The COP21 Climate Change Calculator was co-created by the Financial Times and Climate-KIC, creators of the Global Calculator. Its methodology was developed with funding from the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London and by a team based at Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. You can read more about the work behind the tool in a technical note from the scientists who carried out the research.”
The tool provides a powerful illustration of the scale of pledges delivered and transition to a low carbon economy COP21 needs to make happen just as 103 nations and civil society urge warming to be kept below 1.5°C.
Read the article and build your own model here. Can you get below 1.5 degrees warming?