{"id":380333,"date":"2018-10-09T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-need-a-marshall-plan-for-climate-change-says-climate-expert\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:57:19","slug":"we-need-a-marshall-plan-for-climate-change-says-climate-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-need-a-marshall-plan-for-climate-change-says-climate-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need a \u201cMarshall Plan\u201d for Climate Change, Says Climate Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report from the United Nations\u2019 climate panel warns humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty. The sweeping report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges immediate and unprecedented changes to global policy in order to keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius. We speak with Kevin Anderson, Zennstr\u00f6m professor in climate change leadership at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and chair of energy and climate change at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester in Britain. He says that the IPCC<\/span> report fails to hold the world\u2019s highest emitters accountable and argues a \u201cMarshall Plan\u201d for climate change is necessary to save the planet from destruction. \u201cAbout 70 percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide [come] from about 20 percent of the world population. \u2026 When we try to address climate change and reduce our emissions by focusing on all 7.5 billion people, I think it misunderstands where the actual responsibility of emissions resides,\u201d Anderson says. \u201cWe\u2019re not developing policies that need to be tailored to that particular 20 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A new report from the United Nations\u2019 climate panel warns humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty. The sweeping report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges immediate and unprecedented changes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}