Barry Foster OGILISI’s Post

Our 2023 Net Zero Economy Index highlights that we need to decarbonise seven times faster than at present if we are going to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The gulf between ambition and action is a stark reality check on the need to do more.

📉 Let's see those stronger NDCs. Click through below to see why NDCs are critical to efforts to keep global warming below 1.5°C. Read our latest report, Solving the Climate Conundrum, for the full picture. Link in comments!

To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels, we must halve emissions by 2030.

“We are playing Russian roulette with our planet” 🔫 Unforgettable words from United Nations’s António Guterres at a major speech in New York last week. If we cross the critical 1.5C threshold, the world will enter a realm of unacceptable risk and uncertainty. All efforts must focus on ensuring any ‘overshoot’ beyond 1.5C is temporary and global warming returns to below 1.0C.

COP29 is fast approaching. It will take place from 11 to 22 November 2024, in Azerbaijan/Baku. The climate world is already ready to ensure that it meets to see how it can step up large-scale action to keep up the fight against global warming.

“We are playing Russian roulette with our planet” 🔫 Unforgettable words from United Nations’s António Guterres at a major speech in New York last week. If we cross the critical 1.5C threshold, the world will enter a realm of unacceptable risk and uncertainty. All efforts must focus on ensuring any ‘overshoot’ beyond 1.5C is temporary and global warming returns to below 1.0C.  

Do you like a gamble? Many people and businesses don't seem to think about what the implications of going over the 1.5degree threshold means for them practically. That doesn't simply mean your holidays are 1.5degrees warmer. That means worsening heatwaves, droughts, fires, flooding, amongst other things. The implications on businesses having their supply chains affected, difficulties with transportation of goods, employee and customer travel plans; the cost of resources and energy increasing; farmers and production potentially needing to change how, where, or what they are doing; human migration and changing demands; food crisis; water crisis. All of this will not only have practical knock on effects for our businesses, but the people that operate and use them. Change is coming and we need to help each other to be prepared, and to support each other and the planet to minimise the negative impacts. We can minimise these risks for ourselves and our businesses, but we need to act now. If you are a small, medium or large business, there is support via your local business advisory services. You can also reach out to universities and charitites for sources of information. There are also great mechanisms to help you reduce the impact on greenhouse gases and join the many that are seeking to reduce the impact eg ISO14001, b-corp, or industry specific standards. If you are struggling to get your staff involved or aware, let me know I might be able to help through my research.

Today’s post by the World Economic Forum should be a wake up call to everyone……. To limit global warming to 1.5c, emissions must fall by 7% ANNUALLY until 2030. BUT they are still increasing by 1.5% today. We need to stop dithering and delaying reducing our global emissions https://lnkd.in/eghGsmGS

Has the Global Warming Accelerated in this Century?

The climate crisis clock is ticking. To limit global warming to 1.5°C, we need to slash our emissions in half by 2030. That's only a few short years away. It's now or never. It's time for businesses and governments to join forces and accelerate their actions towards a sustainable future. Take action now: https://lnkd.in/e83hgeg8