{"id":1900,"date":"2015-12-16T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2015-12-16T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:13:17","slug":"how-fast-can-the-world-decarbonize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2015\/12\/16\/how-fast-can-the-world-decarbonize\/","title":{"rendered":"How fast can the world decarbonize?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Week<\/em><\/a>
\nDecember 15, 2015<\/p>\n

by Jeff Spross<\/p>\n

This weekend, international leaders managed<\/a> to hammer out a deal<\/a> for how to tackle climate change. And on the surface, it’s not hard<\/a> to see why naysayers on both the left and right<\/a> are declaring it a giant nothingburger.<\/p>\n

The agreement is largely voluntary<\/a>: 187 countries submit pledges<\/a> to reduce greenhouse gas emissions based on what they think they can handle. Most of the structure the deal provides is a regular process<\/a> to check in on progress and revise goals. If all the current pledges stick, global warming this century will likely be between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius \u2014 well above the 2 degrees Celsius threshold considered safe, and the agreement’s ideal goal of 1.5 degrees.<\/p>\n

But maybe the most daunting thing is the sheer scale<\/a> of the change the global economy must undergo to get warming under control.<\/p>\n

Here, for instance, is Roger Pielke, Jr.’s analysis<\/a> of how much global power consumption comes from green sources now, and where it needs to go by the last quarter of the 21st century:<\/p>\n

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