WHY IS THERE NO DEFINITIVE CLIMATE CHANGE INDEX?
- Why are all climate pledges so difficult to understand?
- Why are no climate commitments based on the remaining carbon budget?
- Why do we accept such foggy media coverage of the climate crisis?
- How can we hold governments to account without a standard measure?
- Where else can you get a truly independent, clear view of the state we are in?
THE RIGHT TO KNOW THE TRUTH
#cutXpercent
We need to create global awareness and understanding of this vital data. Support #cutXpercent. With your endorsement or action.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The basic principles behind the numbers
CutXpercent is rooted in the remaining global carbon budget for both 1.5°C and 2°C heating. This budget must define all climate commitments.
How else can we measure if our policies are good enough?
This budget is then divided per capita, because we all have an equal right to the atmosphere above our heads.
Then after grouping everyone by nation, four common sense principles are applied:
- the calculations do not include unproven carbon capture technology.
- the calculations are be based on consumption, not territorial emissions.
- the calculations do not include dangerous overshoot.
- the emissions reductions needed start from now and continue at that rate.
Emphatic endorsements
The science and the data behind cutXpercent come from OnlyOneEarth.science.
"OnlyOneEarth.science is an important contribution to the United Nations 75th Anniversary Initiative''
(Fabrizio Hochschild, the Secretary General's Special Advisor on the preparations for the Commemoration of the United Nations' 75th Anniversary).
The scientists listed below are among other eminent scientists that have reviewed and support the public communication of this existential UN science presented by OnlyOneEarth.science.
Dr Jim Skea (Chair IPCC)
Dr Jian Liu (Chief Scientist UNEP),
Dr Pavel Kabat (Chief Scientist WMO),
Dr Soumya Swaminathan (Chief Scientist WHO),
Dr Youba Sokona (Vice Chair IPCC),
Dr Janez Potocnik (Co Chair IRP),
Dr Shamila Nair-Bedouelle (Director General Science UNESCO),
Dr Guido Schmidt-Traub (Executive Director UNSDSN),
Dr Elizabeth Mrema (Executive Secretary CBD),
Dr Stefan Swartling Peterson (Director Health UNICEF)
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