Committed Global Climate Change Planetary Emergency
The Health and Human Rights Approach to Greenhouse Gas Pollution
CLIMATE EMERGENCY INSTITUTE
Climate change is set to inflict “severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts”
on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut
sharply and rapidly.
IPCC at Lima, pre-COP20 (2014)
on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut
sharply and rapidly.
IPCC at Lima, pre-COP20 (2014)
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5 Jan 2015 Current pace of environmental climate change is unprecedented in Earth's history
25 Jan 2016 Mankind is likely on a path toward possible extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
27 April 2016 OCEANS It May Soon Be Too Late to Save the Seas
June 2016 Guardian: Shattered records show climate change is an emergency today, scientists warn
March 2016 Nature: Risk of multiple tipping points should be triggering urgent action on climate change
December 2015 Phys.org: Ocean phytoplankton PLANETARY CATASTROPHE — Warming could stop oxygen generation
IPCC 2014 5th Assessment Report (AR5): "No one will be untouched by climate change"
June 2015: The G7 proposed the IPCC's (AR5) most stringent mitigation scenario
How to stop climate change & ocean acidification in one simple step:
Stop fossil fuel subsidies — $5.3 trillion globally, $2.3 trillion in US and China
March 2016 Nature: Risk of multiple tipping points should be triggering urgent action on climate change
December 2015 Phys.org: Ocean phytoplankton PLANETARY CATASTROPHE — Warming could stop oxygen generation
IPCC 2014 5th Assessment Report (AR5): "No one will be untouched by climate change"
June 2015: The G7 proposed the IPCC's (AR5) most stringent mitigation scenario
How to stop climate change & ocean acidification in one simple step:
Stop fossil fuel subsidies — $5.3 trillion globally, $2.3 trillion in US and China
Oxford 1.5ºC Conference presentation page with poster
IEA COP22: Energy, Climate Change &
Environment: 2016 Insights
Environment: 2016 Insights
Nov 2017 Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are rising again (Global Carbon project)
Nov 2017 UNEP
World at 3.2C catastrophe by 2100 from national emissions targets UNEP GAP Report
Oct 2017 Lancet Climate change major threat to human survival
Oct 2017 GHGs surge Unprecedented rate of atmospheric CO2 increase
WMO GHG Bulletin Oct 2017 Rate of atmospheric CO2 increase without any
known precedent
31 Oct 2017 Christiana Figueres Climate change is a public health emergency
26 Oct 2017 Current climate change unparalleled over the last 100 million years?
Sept 2017 Fast Action to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change
29 June say we have Three years to safeguard our climate
Nov 2017 Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are rising again (Global Carbon project)
Nov 2017 UNEP
World at 3.2C catastrophe by 2100 from national emissions targets UNEP GAP Report
Oct 2017 Lancet Climate change major threat to human survival
Oct 2017 GHGs surge Unprecedented rate of atmospheric CO2 increase
WMO GHG Bulletin Oct 2017 Rate of atmospheric CO2 increase without any
known precedent
31 Oct 2017 Christiana Figueres Climate change is a public health emergency
26 Oct 2017 Current climate change unparalleled over the last 100 million years?
Sept 2017 Fast Action to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change
29 June say we have Three years to safeguard our climate
Nature Climate Change March 21st 2016 Risk of multiple tipping points ... urgent global action on climate change ... immediate massive effort ... US$116/tCO2 ... carbon emissions stopped by 2050... goal < 1.5ºC
US temperatures are 10-15 years ahead of global average Article January 11, 2017
Evidence from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans, ...tells an unambiguous story: the planet is warming, and ..., this warming has been driven primarily by human activity—predominantly the burning of fossil fuels. (US Climate Assessment)
Global climate disruption is now a Global Extinction Threat
(UN Sec. General Antonio Guterres 2018 see below )
(UN Sec. General Antonio Guterres 2018 see below )
Top project
The Climate Mobilization
city by city
emergency response
MANY EMERGENCIES declared
The Climate Mobilization
city by city
emergency response
MANY EMERGENCIES declared
March 2018 WMO Global Climate 2017
Costliest ever for extreme weather
Costliest ever for extreme weather
15 May 2018 UN Sec. General says climate change is an 'existential threat' to most life on the planet, including and especially humankind, UN chief warns global summit, and the age of fossil fuels must be ended.
VIDEO of the historic statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres
9 June 2018 We face a global emergency’ over oceans: UN chief sounds the alarm at G7 Summit event. Mr. Guterres noted that commitments are not worth anything “unless we accept that we face a global emergency.”
2015 research Public perceptions of future threats humanity: about half sense an existential threat .
Sept 2017 Mass marine-global extinction if we don't decline global carbon emissions by 2020
Top website climateye.org
13 June 2018 The rate of Antarctic melting X3 past 10 years
May 2018 Massachusetts Religious leaders, & scientists (over 500) declare climate change is an emergency
2018 Health leaders Call to Action
Climate Change is a
Global Health Emergency
Climate Change is a
Global Health Emergency
11 Sept 2018 UN Secretary-General Guterres warns "If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.
TCM Newsletter of the Climate Emergency Movement
18 Feb 2019 EU Climate change existential threat will spare no country-world is not moving fast enough to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.
Unprecedented Crime: (my co-authored) Book
2020 Deadline: Emissions Decline
For a chance of 1.5C for
our common future survival
IPCC 2018 1.5C Report: ONLY ONE YEAR LEFT to put global emissions into rapid decline from 2020 to possibly avoid runaway global heating
IPCC 1.5C Report page
Governments national emissions targets are a big global emissions INCREASE by 2030, which is a global extinction scenario,
All data sets accelerating towards biosphere collapse
Extinction by the fossil fuel corporations, government subsidies and bank financing
>Young Greta Thurnberg is right
>Extinction Rebellion is right
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All mitigation published projections
show immediate (2020) rapid decline
in goal emissionsis required
show immediate (2020) rapid decline
in goal emissionsis required
2020 Deadline: Emissions Decline
24 April 2019 The Guardian Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change
Every day at work we all contribute to a system that is burning us alive.
Every day at work we all contribute to a system that is burning us alive.
Downing tools on 27 September will help change it.
Earth Strike General Strike to Save the Planet
World energy plans of the fossil fuel industry and economists, pushed by governments, financed by corporate investment banks are for a large increase in emissions by 2040, which a plan for extinction.
15 Jan 2018 We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, renowned Harvard Scientist Says. He argued that the physical sciences should take responsibility for preventing environmental catastrophe in the same way the biological sciences have set out to cure cancer.
The 2020 Climate Deadline
In support of the UN Sec General Antonio Guterres (below) we will contact the world,
In support of the UN Sec General Antonio Guterres (below) we will contact the world,
as we have done before with our contact lists of 1000s. There are partners we have in mind
(1) Termination of Earth destroying fossil fuel subsidies (in one year) higher than ever 2017 by the IMF.
(2) Charging fossil fuel corporations directly and immediately
a $50 pollution fee escalating annually to $75 and to $100/tonne
(The UN Global Compact calls on companies to set an internal
price at a minimum of $100 per metric ton). c (3) Tax deductible (100%) on new non combustion clean energy
We will warn that current national emissions targets are a pathway to massive global extinction and that from the recent data trends, research
and IPCC reports the survival of humanity and most of life depends on the immediate (2020) rapid decline of emissions from 2020 (universally recommended for years), with a 50% cut by 2030 (both IPCC 2018 1.5C).
Please note the popular Green New Deal does not do policy.
This means immediate:
(1) Termination of Earth destroying fossil fuel subsidies (in one year) higher than ever 2017 by the IMF.
(2) Charging fossil fuel corporations directly and immediately
a $50 pollution fee escalating annually to $75 and to $100/tonne
(The UN Global Compact calls on companies to set an internal
price at a minimum of $100 per metric ton). c (3) Tax deductible (100%) on new non combustion clean energy
(4) Ban fracking
Also
(4)Global ban on tropical and boreal deforestation (CO2)
(5) Health and GHG pollution on ruminant livestock meat (methane)
(7) Personal wealth and inheritance taxes (wealth=GHG pollution)
(8) Environmental tax on chemical nitrogen fertilizer ( nitrous oxide potent GHG & top strat ozone depleter)
(9) Agreement and the implementation for global emissions to decline
rapidly from 2020 (at the UN COP 25 Santiago Climate Change Conference)
If this is not done, runaway global heating climate chaos, and a life not worth
living for today's children is our legacy.
rapidly from 2020 (at the UN COP 25 Santiago Climate Change Conference)
If this is not done, runaway global heating climate chaos, and a life not worth
living for today's children is our legacy.
We will send this communication to:
o All world governments,
o The UN Sec General *in support) and UN departments
o Inter-governmental organizations
o Fossil fuel financing banks & major banks
o Fossil fuel corporations,
o Environmental, development and justice networks
o All world governments,
o The UN Sec General *in support) and UN departments
o Inter-governmental organizations
o Fossil fuel financing banks & major banks
o Fossil fuel corporations,
o Environmental, development and justice networks
o World religious and faith leaders
o Hundreds of involved organizations and
o Thousands of individual leaders (from our contact lists).
o Hundreds of involved organizations and
o Thousands of individual leaders (from our contact lists).
May 13, 2019. In a judicial first, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal court found found against the Saskatchewan government ruling that “climate change is doubtless an emergency in the sense that it presents a genuine threat to Canada.”
1 May 2019 UK Parliament declares 'climate emergency'
Current global emissions
tracking close to worst
case scenario
tracking close to worst
case scenario
"Annual emissions from fossil fuels must start falling by 2020" Rockstrom 2017
Know it or not we are all in a climate and Nature emergency, and they both interact making each other worse.
May 08, 2019 U.N. Secretary-General Warns of 'Total Disaster' If Global Warming Isn't Stopped. The alternative to global transformation “would mean "a catastrophic situation for the whole world”
Sec General Guterres said he will ask leaders to stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
He said he wants countries to build no new coal power plants after 2020. He wants them to put a price on the use of carbon.
He said he wants countries to build no new coal power plants after 2020. He wants them to put a price on the use of carbon.
He wants net zero carbon by 2050
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CNN 23 May 2019 We have less time than you think
..1 year
31 May 2019 UN head calls again for end to fossil fuel subsidies
