Rather than pat itself on the back over such strides as have been made to this point in the race to significantly reduce carbon emissions, the international community needs to do still more if it is to arrive at a point where the worst consequences of climate change can be staved off, a recently released report from the Australia-based Global Carbon Project (GCP) says.
GCP is a research partner of the World Climate Research Programme set up to partner with the international science community to establish a common and mutually agreed knowledge base to support policy debate and action designed to arrest the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The thrust of the GCP report, while pointing to an overall slowing down in the growth of global carbon emissions, contends that its persistent rise, points to the fact that governments are still not doing enough to stave off the now widely predicted apocalyptic consequences of climate change.
