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BRIEFINGS

Download Breakthrough's Briefings Notes.

Latest analysis reveals “Net zero 2050” emissions (NZ2050) strategies will lock in many decades of unnecessary fossil fuels use well past 2050, with an unsustainable, business-as-usual economic pathway, dangerous “offset” trade-offs, and unacceptable risks of unstoppable climate warming.

“NET ZERO 2050”:
A DANGEROUS ILLUSION
COP26
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COP26 Briefing Note
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CARBON BUDGETS
FOR 1.5 & 2°C
Briefing Note

Confused about carbon budgets for the Paris climate  goals? Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? This briefing note explores how IPCC carbon budgets underestimate current and future warming, omit important climate system feedback mechanisms, and make dangerous assumptions about

risk-management.

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