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Good news from the World Meteorological Organization.

"Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5 °C".

We can still make it - barely

Source: "State of the Global Climate Report 2024". It's 42 pages of bad news, more or less, so be prepared for that.

wmo.int/publication-series/sta

World Meteorological Organization · State of the Global Climate 2024

What do you think? With the recent political issues in the world, can we still reach the goals of the Paris agreement?

@JohanEmpa no. And we could not have, even before the current events. We need a rewiring of the economy even for 2.5C

Johan Empa

@alberto_cottica Which parts of the economy needs to be rewired?

@JohanEmpa masto updates are not a good format for this discussion. Plus, we don't know for sure yet. If you forced me to answer in short format, I would say: value theory; mod

@JohanEmpa Masto updates are not the best format to have this discussion. Plus we don't know yet. If you forced a quick answer out of me, I'd say: value theory (away from utility theory and onto physical measures of meeting human needs); modes of provisioning (away from for-profit entities and onto coops or public sector corps for providing anything deemed a human right, like housing, education or health); and monetary theory (away from "spend tax revenue" and onto )