Last Friday the UN released a report assessing the combined climate action plans of all 191 parties to the Paris Agreement which found that they point towards a catastrophic 2.7°C temperature rise by the end of the century.
Not only that. Instead of a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 levels by 2030, necessary to limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C according to the IPCC sixth assessment report published last month, current Paris Agreement signatory plans put us on course for a 16% increase by that date.
Meanwhile, back in post-Brexit blighty, an analysis of how UK broadcasters are exposing audiences to climate change found that the word “cake” was used ten times more often than the phrase “climate change” on UK TV in 2020.