While citizens of the world are making it increasingly clear they want their governments to reduce global emissions, it’s less obvious what concessions they will allow to enable politicians to act.
We modelled how much energy inequality would have to reduce to secure human wellbeing and climate safety. The gap in energy consumption between the world’s lowest and highest energy consumers would have to reduce eight-fold by 2050.
IPPO Cities is bringing together city policymakers and urban net zero expertise from across continents at a policy roundtable to discuss their experiences, successes, and challenges in striving for net zero. This briefing note builds on this work by focusing on city-level solutions. By Henriette Ruhrmann.
IPPO aims to map what is both achievable and useful to make it easier for decision makers to act effectively.
