7 October 2025 2025: The Guardian: Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says.The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Fairyland of 2 degrees
8 September 2025, CarbonBrief: Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated. Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is widely expected to play a key role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. But this will only … Continue reading →
11 November 2024, Carbon Brief: Guest post: What 1.5C overshoot would mean for climate impacts and adaptation. With average global temperatures set to see another record high this year, the chances of holding warming to no more than 1.5C continue to dwindle. Keeping … Continue reading →
20 August 2024, The Conversation: The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C. Record breaking fossil fuel production, all time high greenhouse gas emissions and extreme temperatures. Like the proverbial frog in … Continue reading →