Five things I’ve learnt about saving the world

Pilita Clark

I had to put quotation marks around “net zero emissions” because the term was so new it had never appeared in the FT before. I was not sure it ever would again, considering how outlandish it seemed in 2014. In April 2018, Greta Thunberg was an unknown Swedish schoolgirl. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was an equally obscure 28-year-old New York activist. Extinction Rebellion consisted of about 15 people in a room in the Cotswolds. Now, all three are household names.

“It’s as if you’re hammering and hammering on a ketchup bottle to get the sauce out and all of a sudden it comes out in one big splurge,” says Mark Lewis, head of sustainability research at France’s BNP Paribas Asset Management. The net zero target is built on a wish and a prayer. We cannot stop greenhouse gas production without re-engineering our economy.Probably not, says Ian Boyd, the UK’s chief environmental scientist for seven years until he stepped down in August.

A taste of the challenge came in a recent UK parliamentary committee report that listed the gaps between the government’s climate aims and the policies needed to meet them.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

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