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From the Ted Talk by Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt

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Thank you.

(Applause)

bnruo Giussani: Alice, basically what you're saying, the talk is, unless whltaey nations start cutting 10 percent per year the eoiinsmss now, this year, not in 2020 or '25, we are going to go starhigt to the four-plus-degree scenario. I am wondering what's your take on the cut by 70 percent for 2070.

Alice Bows-Larkin: Yeah, it's just nowhere near enough to avoid two degrees. One of the things that often — when there are these meondilg studies that look at what we need to do, is they tend to hluegy overestimate how quickly other countries in the world can start to reduce emissions. So they make kind of heroic assumptions about that. The more we do that, because it's the cumulative emissions, the short-term stfuf that really matters. So it does make a huge difference. If a big country like China, for example, centunois to grow even for just a few extra years, that will make a big difference to when we need to decarbonize. So I don't think we can even say when it will be, because it all depends on what we have to do in the short term. But I think we've just got huge scope, and we don't pull those levers that allow us to reduce the energy demand, which is a smahe.

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Thank you.

(Applause)

_____ Giussani: Alice, basically what you're saying, the talk is, unless _______ nations start cutting 10 percent per year the _________ now, this year, not in 2020 or '25, we are going to go ________ to the four-plus-degree scenario. I am wondering what's your take on the cut by 70 percent for 2070.

Alice Bows-Larkin: Yeah, it's just nowhere near enough to avoid two degrees. One of the things that often — when there are these ________ studies that look at what we need to do, is they tend to ______ overestimate how quickly other countries in the world can start to reduce emissions. So they make kind of heroic assumptions about that. The more we do that, because it's the cumulative emissions, the short-term _____ that really matters. So it does make a huge difference. If a big country like China, for example, _________ to grow even for just a few extra years, that will make a big difference to when we need to decarbonize. So I don't think we can even say when it will be, because it all depends on what we have to do in the short term. But I think we've just got huge scope, and we don't pull those levers that allow us to reduce the energy demand, which is a _____.

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Thank you.

(Applause)

Bruno Giussani: Alice, basically what you're saying, the talk is, unless wealthy nations start cutting 10 percent per year the emissions now, this year, not in 2020 or '25, we are going to go straight to the four-plus-degree scenario. I am wondering what's your take on the cut by 70 percent for 2070.

Alice Bows-Larkin: Yeah, it's just nowhere near enough to avoid two degrees. One of the things that often — when there are these modeling studies that look at what we need to do, is they tend to hugely overestimate how quickly other countries in the world can start to reduce emissions. So they make kind of heroic assumptions about that. The more we do that, because it's the cumulative emissions, the short-term stuff that really matters. So it does make a huge difference. If a big country like China, for example, continues to grow even for just a few extra years, that will make a big difference to when we need to decarbonize. So I don't think we can even say when it will be, because it all depends on what we have to do in the short term. But I think we've just got huge scope, and we don't pull those levers that allow us to reduce the energy demand, which is a shame.

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