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Category: Carbon Budgets

Guest post: “Carbon budgets are misleading”

25 February, 2020 Marc Hudson 1 Comment

Here’s a guest post from Dr Seb Carney (biographical details at bottom), on the question of just-how-much-use are “carbon budgets”…

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Dear @BBC,
when you're ready to report on the news again, perhaps this from the @FT is where you could start?

FFS.

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https://news.sky.com/story/up-to-a-third-of-land-species-and-half-in-the-sea-face-extinction-if-climate-change-is-not-slowed-new-study-reveals-12269399
"Green space" is not just good for humans - and it is not just exotic, tropical species that are threatened. In a sane world, local governments would also take into consideration the well-being of non-human in their decisions. How do we help this happen?

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Cars (BEVs or not) take up a lot of space (roads + parking) and are dangerous to all other road users. Imagine if we acted on that information and radically reduced the number of cars in Greater Manchester...what could you do, in a city that put people before cars?

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A city with fewer cars is a city that comes to life #bancars https://twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/1380531780076367874

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Ardwick Litterpickers at work – @ArdwickLitter https://climateemergencymanchester.net/2021/04/09/ardwick-litterpickers-at-work-ardwicklitter/

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