World near positive 'tipping point' on climate solutions: expert

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With climate-enhanced droughts, heatwaves and fires ravaging three continents and the threat of a new surge in global warming, the world urgently needs to ramp-up solutions for slashing carbon pollution. But which solutions are most critical?

The organisation Project Drawdown has detailed the potential, feasibility and cost of nearly a hundred climate solutions since it was set up in 2017.

Q: A lot of hope -- and investment -- is going into technological solutions such as filtering fossil fuel pollution or pulling CO2 out of the air. Comment? Q: We often hear that solutions are already available, all that's missing is political will. Is that it? Government regulation has been a very small contributor. So far, businesses and communities are leading on climate action. We have already seen dramatic reductions in emissions -- 20 percent in the US since peaking in 2007, and 40 percent since the mid-1990s in the UK -- in major economies around the world, fuelled by changes in technology, business, investment, and culture.

 

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