Video

After last week's morbid post that carried a dominating message of doom and gloom, I think it's time to move onto the theme of this blog and start to explore some of the ways in which we could solve this global issue.

In the place of the text-heavy posts of the previous weeks (and in hope of providing a joy similar to those rare school geography classes when the teacher wheels out the TV at the beginning of the lesson), I am instead going to recommend an insightful 12 minute video from the IPCC that provides a background on a few of the mitigation options that exist for a number of the major global sectors, some of which I will go explore in the coming weeks.

As is shown in the video, one of the most important factors in the success of climate change mitigation is the point at which effective action is taken. If measures are introduced immediately, the required reduction rate for emissions is half what it would be if there was no response until 2030. an important message from the video is that emission reduction needs to occur in all sectors and regions, and I will be investigating a number of these in the near future.