13 May 2025 – 16:00
Auditorium 1 and Online
Within the global framework of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the various instruments it gave rise to (such as the Kyoto Protocol and later the Paris Agreement), the strategy to combat climate change has until now been centred on an attempt to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, expressed in carbon dioxide equivalents.
Despite this effort, global emissions have continued to rise steadily, and there is now a broad scientific consensus that it is no longer sufficient to maintain a strategy centred solely on trying to reduce GHG emissions. According to the UNEP Emissions Gap Report for 2024, in any of the scenarios studied ‘future large-scale and costly removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be necessary to mitigate the overshoot of the Paris targets.’ In other words, faced with a problem of excess GHG stocks accumulating in the atmosphere, reducing emissions and/or addressing flows alone will always be insufficient to avoid non-return points.
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