IPCC climate change report: averting catastrophe is eminently affordable

Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards according to a UN report, which concludes that the transformation required to a world of clean energy is eminently affordable.
“It doesn’t cost the world to save the planet,” said economist Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, who led the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) team.

The cheapest and least risky route to dealing with global warming is to abandon all dirty fossil fuels in coming decades, the report found. Gas – including that from the global fracking boom – could be important during the transition, Edenhofer said, but only if it replaced coal burning.

The authoritative report, produced by 1,250 international experts and approved by 194 governments, dismisses fears that slashing carbon emissions would wreck the world economy. It is the final part of a trilogy that has already shown that climate change is “unequivocally” caused by humans and that, unchecked, it poses a grave threat to people and could lead to wars and mass migration.

Diverting hundred of billions of dollars from fossil fuels into renewable energy and cutting energy waste would shave just 0.06% off expected annual economic growth rates of 1.3%-3%, the IPCC report concluded.
“The report is clear: the more you wait, the more it will cost [and] the more difficult it will become,” said EU commissioner Connie Hedegaard. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, said: “This report is a wake-up call about global economic opportunity we can seize today as we lead on climate change.”


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/13/averting-climate-change-catas...


So why is the bloke who wants to be known as the infrastructure PM, why is he going in the opposite direction by attacking renewable energy infrastructure. Is he showing his true colours so to reveal abbott is the antichrist of infrastructure?

Soren wrote on Apr 14^th, 2014 at 7:46am:



DANGER DANGER... GREENIES ON THE WARPATH.. DANGER DANGER...



antichrist now...

one minute hes a religious fanatic.. and now...!!!!

oh gawd I cant stand these pathetic.LW threads..

cods wrote on Apr 14^th, 2014 at 9:01am:



Yet you frequent them a lot.

Abbott hates infrastructure and that is why he is attacking renewable energy.

____ wrote on Apr 14^th, 2014 at 9:08am:




you would be surprised at how many I dont even open... yours I do when I see one of your ugly titles.. I think omg what is this person on about now...and I am usually right..made up rubbish...so pathetic..but I realise its all you have that and the guardian..lolololol..

most I dont open though.. so dont kid yourself..

I will leave you to talk to yourself.

cods wrote on Apr 14^th, 2014 at 9:15am:


That's the whole world soon ... so it will be a massive bridge.

Go The Global Greens Movement.

aquascoot wrote on Apr 14^th, 2014 at 9:21am:



Now that Abbott is crippling the budget by scrapping revenue via the carbon/mining while abbott is spending like a drunken sailor ... I understand your dilemma on funding infrastructure.

Mining tax will be bringing in the big biccies about now—the miners have used up what they can rapidly depreciate and are winding up their infrastructure works. Only a fool, like Abbott, would get rid of it now.

Abbott and Turnbull have killed the bloody NBN, the most important infrastructure in our history. The act of a complete fool, a lunatic. Not much better—the idiot’s decision not to fund public transport! We all know, build or widen a road and in a few years it is chockablock with cars again. At a time of peak oil and need to reduce GHG emissions to not fund public transport really is nothing short of lunacy.

The MRRT didn't need to exist.. as states already claimed royalties.
If these were insufficient they could have been increased.  If we wanted uniformity they could all be raised to the same level.
Just another stupid ALP policy where they had to interfere for no real reason, with the usual results.