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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)

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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

Oxford 1.5ºC Conference presentation page with poster

IEA COP22: Energy, Climate Change & 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

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 )

Top project
The Climate Mobilization
city by city
emergency response
MANY EMERGENCIES declared

March 2018 WMO Global Climate 2017
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

Biosphere News Search

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

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 (and 2C limit) to avoid global heating runaway extinction global emissions must decline 2020

Accelerating greenhouse gas pollution data + policies for large increases in fossil fuel extraction =biosphere collapse (global heating/climate chaos/oceans collapse)

IPCC Madrid UN COP25 opening IPCC statement Dec 2019

"Our assessments show that... greenhouse gas emissions must start to peak from next year." "The Three special reports reconfirm the urgent need for immediate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions"

Nov 2019 World Scientists Warning to Humanity: Climate Emergency

18 Oct 2019 “Climate change a considerable threat to global food security, with existential outcomes

17 Sept 2019 Our addiction to fossil fuels causes climate emergency, say UN human rights experts

10 Oct 2019 IMF warns world must take urgent steps to reduce global warming

IPCC 2018 1.5C Report: ONLY ONE YEAR LEFT to put global emissions into rapid decline from 2020 to avoid global climate catastrophe.

IPCC 1.5C Report page

Governments' national emissions targets are a big global emissions INCREASE by 2030, which is a global extinction scenario,

2019 Accelerating Data Sets

This is global extinction by the fossil fuel corporations, government subsidies and the big global investment bank financing.

UN Call to Action document of the Sept 2019 UNClimate Action Summit Summit Conference call to end subsidies on fossil fuels and high emitting agriculture

PDF 2019 comprehensive data

All mitigation projections require immediate (2020) rapid decline in global emissions.

More on the 2020 Deadline: Emissions Decline

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

We have to warn the world 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).

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 are tracking the worst case

global suicide scenario

"Annual emissions from fossil fuels must start falling by 2020"

Johan Rockstrom 2017

Many now realize we are all in a climate and Nature emergency.
Not so well known is that they both interact making each other worse.

2019 multiple GHG pollution data sets are accelerating, trending to biosphere collapse

8 May 2019 (Time Youtube) 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 wants net zero carbon by 2050

PDF 2020 deadline high resolution

CNN 23 May 2019 We have less time than you think ..1 year

17 June 2019 IISD Reforming Subsidies Could Help Pay for a Clean Energy Revolution: Report

UN Secretary General's stong global climate emergency statements

1 December 2019 ...the efforts of the international community to reach these targets have been “utterly inadequate.” "The point od no return is hurtling towards us"

28 May 2019 VIDEO Austrian World Summit UN head calls again for end to fossil fuel subsidies

31 May 2019 UN head calls again for end to fossil fuel subsidies