Climate change policy needs a shot in the arm, not a rethink

With the latest figures suggesting we’d need the equivalent of bringing a new nuclear power plant online every day for the next 30 years to hit the IPCC’s carbon-free energy targets, it’s time we looked at subsidies and investment, writes James Moore

The radical policies and societal changes we need to get started are barely on the table (PA)

Time to bin climate change targets and think again?

The University of Colorado’s Roger Pielke, who teaches on policy and governance issues related to science, recently argued in Forbes that the world is doomed to miss the 2030 target of reducing CO2 emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 en route to reaching “net zero” around 2050.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says this is what is needed if we are to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5C.