{"id":8369,"date":"2023-11-09T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T06:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2023-11-09T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T06:19:39","slug":"climate-change-how-much-time-do-we-have-left-to-solve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/09\/climate-change-how-much-time-do-we-have-left-to-solve-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change: how much time do we have left to address it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In 2021, the United Nations calculated that\u00a0<\/span><i>remaining carbon budget<\/i>\u00a0(RCB), i.e. the amount of carbon we can still emit before exceeding the 1.5\u00b0C temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement, is 500 billion tonnes, making the \u201cpoint of no return\u201d in 2032.\u00a0<span>According to a new study that appeared in\u00a0<\/span><i><span>in the journal Nature<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0, in fact\u00a0<\/span><span>Rcb<\/span><span> at the beginning of 2023 it was only 250 billion tons, which, considering that about 40 billion tons are emitted annually worldwide (a figure that is increasing, among other things), would bring the deadline dangerously close to 2029.\u00a0 <\/span><span>A research team led by Robin D. Lamboll from\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Imperial College London<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0 updated the RCB calculation models by including additional complexity factors that could <\/span>affect the increase in Earth&#039;s temperature<span> , and in particular, separated the real role played by CO2 from that of other greenhouse gases, whose residual emissions may continue to increase temperatures even if net CO2 emissions reach zero. (<em>Elena Esposto<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, the United Nations calculated that the remaining carbon budget (RCB), the amount of carbon we can still emit before exceeding the 1.5\u00b0C temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement, was 500 billion tonnes, reaching a \u201cpoint of no return\u201d in 2032. In fact, according to a new study published in the journal Nature, the RCB at the beginning of 2023 was [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}