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Pep Canadell

Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project and Senior Research Fellow at the CSIRO Climate Science Centre in Canberra, Australia

Once again, a new edition of global climate change indicators shows the harsh reality of what we are doing to our planet. Despite major advances in renewable energy, the replacement of fossil fuels is still not happening on a global scale. Emissions of every type of greenhouse gas—synthetic gases from industry, carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, methane from agriculture and industry, and nitrous oxide from the use of fertilisers in agriculture—continue to rise. And with them, global temperatures, heat accumulation in the oceans and sea level rise.

It has never been more urgent to accelerate the energy transition away from fossil fuels and develop less aggressive ways to produce the large amounts of food that the world's population needs. We have solutions for 90% of emissions, but we need to implement them at a much faster pace than we are currently doing. The price of inaction will cost us much more.

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