The United Nation’s former global warming czar has published a paper claiming humanity only has three years left to avert dangerous global warming and meet the goals of the Paris climate accord.
To do that, Christiana Figueres says governments and businesses need to pony up $1.3 trillion a year by 2020 earmarked for “climate action” to decarbonize the global economy. That’s on top of boosting green energy and phasing out fossil fuels, mostly coal.
“[S]hould emissions continue to rise beyond 2020, or even remain level, the temperature goals set in Paris become almost unattainable,” Figueres, the former head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wrote in an article published in Nature. “The UN Sustainable Development Goals that were agreed in 2015 would also be at grave risk.”
“These goals may be idealistic at best, unrealistic at worst. However, we are in the age of exponential 
transformation and think that such a focus will unleash ingenuity,” Figueres wrote in her article, which was co-authored by a few environmentalists and scientists.
The Paris accord aims to “significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change” by keeping global warming “well below” two degrees Celsius by 2100. Beyond that, many activist scientists say global warming poses a danger to humanity.
World leaders are set to meet at the G20 summit in July, and Figueres wants them to “highlight the importance of the 2020 climate turning point for greenhouse-gas emissions” by imposing more policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and putting up more money for climate programs.
Figueres isn’t the first to propose a costly plan to limit future global warming. A group associated with former Vice President Al Gore issued a report in April calling for $15 trillion to be spent on green energy and other programs to limit global warming.
The Gore-affiliated Energy Transitions Commission’s (ETC) called for “investment in renewables and other low-carbon technologies some $6 trillion higher ($300 billion per year); while the largest required increases – of almost $9 trillion ($450 billion per year) – will be in more efficient energy saving equipment and buildings.”
A recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance report estimated $12.7 trillion was needed to keep projected global warming below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
The report estimated $7.4 trillion will be invested in new green energy capacity by 2040, adding a “further $5.3 trillion investment in 3.9 [terawatts] of zero-carbon capacity would be consistent with keeping the planet on a 2-degrees-C trajectory.”
Figueres calls for about $1.3 trillion a year to fight global warming by 2020. So the actual cost of her plan is likely on par or higher than those suggested outlined by the Gore group and Bloomberg.
“[P]lans to fully decarbonize buildings and infrastructures by 2050, with funding of $300 billion annually,” she wrote, adding the “financial sector has rethought how it deploys capital and is mobilizing at least $1 trillion a year for climate action.”
That includes issuing “green bonds” to finance climate programs.
The world would need to get 30 percent of its electricity from green sources, electric vehicles would need to be 15 percent of the global vehicle fleet and reduce deforestation, wrote Figueres and company.
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I thought Gore said that 10 years ago
he did
No, that was Tipper Gore, down on all fours….
Is that a photo of Patrick Swayze in drag? Dirty Dancing around the truth.
LOL, that was my first thought too!
LOL. That’s exactly what I thought. Only he was better looking!
“Your’e outta here too, Morgan. We’re selling booze here, not drugs. So, consider it severance pay, and take the train………….(there’s always barber college).heh, heh, heh.
Yes. AFTER he died of pancreatic cancer….
The name……………….is DALTON!
I really wonder how many AGW believers actually believe the garbage that woman spouts. The impending catastrophe is always right around the corner. They are the little boy who cried “wolf”. No wonder people no longer believe them.
What woman? Al?
Three years is about right….before the climate change to the New Little Ice Age makes the scam too obvious to ignore.
The Global Warming scam is being used to further the UN’s agenda “UN Plan for 2030” – Global Socialism (but more like communism). Meanwhile Al Gore leaves all his lights on in his palace and has no solar panels at all. What an Inconvenient Truth. I was looking at a 1970’s video the other day about the impending arrival of the next ice-age. Still waiting.
Oh, Fred, it’s much worse than that, for A.Gore. His own minions are revolting against him, not because they’re angry at being lied to, (they all knew it was bs before me & you), but because the global pay-off hasn’t happened, and nor is it likely to, in the Trumpian Age. I’m so happy at the lib/left/Socialist traitor-to-America failures that I could blow myself! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Cracks me up that these IDIOTS are so blind that they don’t see that their predictions all along have been FAILURES, and they STILL think they are right, idiocy run rampant.
I’m STILL waiting for the ICE AGE they predicted back in the 70s, AND, of course, the ICE FREE poles that are taking a little longer to shed their ice, oops the ice is INCREASING, oh my!!!