Just three years from the point of no return

We are now three years away from a point-of-no-return, according to the International energy Agency.

Two years ago, the IEA concluded that we had five years left to implement urgent energy reforms after which we would no longer be able to avoid dangerous climate change. 

The IEA had found that even with current climate policies in place, we are locked into a rise of between 2C and 5.3C corroborating a report from the former head of NASA’s  Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the world's best known climate scientist, James Hansen.

In a story headed: “James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway globalwarming”, the Guardian reported that without full decarbonisation by 2030, our global emissions pathway guarantees new era of catastrophic climate change.