Five Times Faster

Simon Sharpe, senior fellow at the World Resources Institute and Director of Economics for the UN Climate Champions Team, explains that to contain climate change, nations must make sure global temperatures do not increase beyond 1.5^oC [2.7°F]. To that end, greenhouse gas emissions must drop dramatically and quickly.

Underestimating Climate Change

Even leaders who accept the science behind climate change – and whose countries emit dangerous greenhouse gasses in quantity – underestimate the risk climate change poses.