'Lost opportunity': Analysts warn 'business-as-usual' Covid-19 recovery plans set to burn through 1.5C carbon budget by 2030

Cecilia Keating
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World is on track to drain remaining carbon budget for 1.5C scenario by end of this decade and put world on track for 2.3C of warming by 2100, according to latest edition of DNV's influential Energy Transition Outlook

The carbon budget for a 1.5C warming scenario is on track to be exhausted by the end of this decade after pandemic recovery packages largely failed to put the world on a more sustainable development pathway....

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