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A brilliant talk that punctures current discourse on climate ambition in Scotland, setting out what's really needed, by @KevinClimate for @ScotClimateCA

📽️ https://t.co/i02FtSkJT8 📽️

Well worth watching. Otherwise, here's a summary thread 👇
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 Want scientific assessment of what Scotland should do to achieve Paris Agreement temperature targets? Look to carbon budgets. See that a failure to rapidly reduce emissions will eat up the carbon budget in just a few years, leaving impossible burdens for future generations. 2/10
Are UK emissions down 45% in 30 years? Not when including emissions from aviation & shipping, and imports & exports – then they are only down 10%. Over three decades, we have had reductions of less than 0.5% per year. 3/10
Scotland’s average per person consumption emissions are still double the global average. Scotland’s consumption emissions have not meaningfully reduced in the last 20 years… 4/10
Principles of global equity and justice mean that Scotland’s fair slice of the global carbon budget is just a few hundred million tonnes of CO2, which is less than ten years of Scotland’s emissions at current levels. 5/10
Scotland’s current plans disregard principles of global equity and justice, as they take a slice of the carbon budget 2-3 times bigger than what is fair.

Negative emissions technologies cannot be relied on to make up the difference at that scale. 6/10
UK and Scottish climate ‘leadership’ stories are hot air. They present success as being slightly less inadequate than other countries that are failing. 7/10 https://t.co/LBpjZaM6cT
Annual emissions reductions of 10% per year are needed in Scotland immediately, to achieve 75% reduction by 2030.

Scotland’s wealthy high emitters must reduce more than 10% each year.

Real zero energy is needed by 2035.

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Needed rapidly in 10-15 years⏲️
Home retrofits & new homes at Passivhaus standards🏘️
Phase out gas heating🔥
Shift from cars to public transport and active travel🚴‍♀️
Frequent flyer levy🛬
Huge electrification with renewables⚡️
Phase out of oil and gas, with just transition⛽️
9/10
Not easy, but there are opportunities: new jobs, better air quality, reduced fuel poverty, improved public health, and a focus on working for public services.

This is what it means to show international leadership at #COP26 and to deliver the Paris Agreement.

10/10
In case of interest @jamiedmaxwell @patrickharvie @AdamRamsay @TyndallManc @GCUclimatejust @MMikulewicz @JessCHope @keithalexander @markballard27 @markruskell @TransformScot @ScotGovClimate @COP26_Coalition

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