Personal CO2 Budget
33 |
Tonnes CO2 to have a good chance of a safe climate (1.5˚C)
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OR
115 |
Tonnes CO2 to probably stay below dangerous climate change (2˚C).
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To be clear; this 33 - 115 Tonnes CO2 budget is a:
Total,
for all time,
for all people yet to come.
Not a yearly one.
When it is used up - that's it folks.
When it's gone we'll have to be emitting, overall a big fat ZERO CO2.
So we could aim to stay below 33 tonnes CO2 and ensure we definitely stay below 115 tonnes
For some idea of what this means, the average British person emits about: 10 tonnes CO2 per year. So the average Brit has not got long to descend gracefully to zero! |
One tonne bubbles of CO2 shown to scale:
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