Entries by Daphne Hanson

The domestic politics of greenhouse gas emissions reduction

The atmospheric scientists comprising the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  (IPCC) have advised that avoiding severe climate change requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% of the 2010 world total in 2030 and getting to net-zero emissions in 2050.  The 2010 world total was 34180.73 metric tons; reducing it by 45% requires not exceeding  […]