The Guardian: We can meet 2C climate target – and here's how, say energy experts

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/we-can-meet-c2-climate-target-and-heres-how-say-energy-experts

[font face=Serif][font size=5]We can meet 2C climate target – and here's how, say energy experts[/font]
[font size=4]Sir Bob Watson and a team of climate experts lay out a step-by-step action plan on how to meet global warming limit, but say success depends on ‘immediate, urgent, action’[/font]

Stephen Leahy
theguardian.com, Friday 10 October 2014 06.42 EDT

[font size=3]Meeting a target of keeping global temperature from rising above 2C is still possible, according to 30 leading climate and energy experts.

The authors, who include former UK government scientific adviser Sir Bob Watson, conclude that staying under 2C needs “immediate, urgent action” at the highest levels of governments. The Tackling the Challenge of Climate Change report was presented at Ban Ki-moon’s UN climate summit in New York last month.

Watson rejects any suggestion that 2C is an inappropriate target saying it “plays into the hands of climate deniers” and would be a step backward from the urgent action that’s needed.

Waiting until 2025 or 2030 to bend the CO2 emissions curve will be too late to meet the 2C target. That would hit most of Africa, many small island states and the world’s poorest very hard.

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[Nihil]

1. Not a shock to us but at least it is yet another voice out there saying this:

> Nearly half of the world’s most powerful corporations are in the fossil fuel sector.
> They have extraordinary influence on government policies that Watson calls
> “a form of corruption” preventing the necessary action on climate.
> In countries like the US, Australia and Canada, industry leads and government
> follows he said.

Personally, I wouldn't have bothered with "a form of" but he's being polite.