"Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement: Technologies, Economics and Politics" by Jeffrey Sachs

Climate Change, Health of the Planet and Future of Humanity

Pontifical Academy of Sciences - CNR Casina Pio IV, 15 November 2018

More than fifty years after the first reports[1] climate change is taking a growing toll on humanity and on ecosystems, at local, regional and planetary scales. The scientific community has deeply investigated the causes and consequences of climate change, from primary drivers (the fast, anthropogenically-driven, increase in use of fossil fuel releasing greenhouse gases, in turn causing climate warming) to impacts, some of which (e.g. loss of biodiversity and agricultural productivity, rising see level and climate extremization, including growing desertification and frequent occurrence of extreme meteorological events) are devastating the stability of life on Earth and may pose a serious risk for human wellbeing, and even survival. Read more https://bit.ly/2E1Fdsb