GOOD NEWS THOUGH EVERYONE!
A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030.
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"The world is not on track to limit temperature rise below 2°C — and limiting warming [to] 1.5°C is almost certainly unachievable," the Institute of International Finance writes
The banking industry can support the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy but capital will only move "at scale when the economics make sense," Mary Kate Binecki, a spokesperson for the Institute of International Finance, said in an email.
Yeah no shit we're headed for 3 degree warming. What I want to know is how fast they think we'll get there
They (the banks) think by the end of the century. Personally I think that's optimistic. 2c within a decade though.
I'm so glad that scientists have predicted that heating is linear and there aren't any irreversible tipping points after which feedback loops intensify and system collapse becomes inevitable