Carbon countdown clock: how much of the world's carbon budget have we spent?
by Nick Evershed from Environment | The Guardian on (#29E18)
One way of looking at emissions targets is as a fixed budget amount, or quota. This countdown shows one estimate of how long it will take to reach an amount of greenhouse gas emissions beyond which 2C of warming will be likely
To have a good chance of keeping global warming under 2C, there is only a finite amount of carbon pollution the world can emit - this amount can be thought of as a fixed budget amount, or quota.
Our countdown clock shows one estimate of how long it will take to reach an amount of greenhouse gas emissions beyond which 2C of warming will be likely.