Climate Adaptation
Global Economy Can Grow If World Warms Less Than 1.5°C, Study Says
Radically rethinking transportation is crucial to achieving 2% growth, researcher says.
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The global economy will be 2% bigger by the end of the century if the world can hold global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a new study.
Most models predict a period in which the world surpasses that mark for several years or decades, before cooling back down to the 1.5 degree mark (2.7 Fahrenheit) by 2100. This would require removing existing carbon from the atmosphere on an impractically large scale, according to research published in the journal Nature Climate Change.