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NOBEL SUMMIT ADDRESSES APPROACHES TO MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- By The Financial District
- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min read
This year is decisive for the world in terms of the climate, leading scientists and Nobel laureates said at a sustainability summit held online on Monday, Steffen Trumpf reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).
"This moment in which we gather is filled with abundant and legitimate hope that we're right now crossing the long-awaited political tipping point on climate," said former US vice president Al Gore as he opened the three-day summit.
"I'm more optimistic today than ever, not just because so many world leaders announced significant stretched goals last week to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half over the next nine years," Gore said.
"Their pledges have already set the direction of travel for government policies that will evolve this decade and their new short-term goals remarkably increase the chance of actually reaching net-zero emissions by mid-century."
"We are living in the early stages of a sustainability revolution," said Gore, a Nobel laureate.
"It has the magnitude of the industrial revolution coupled with the speed of the digital revolution."
If humanity gets 2021, a "super year for cooperation" right, with the World Climate Conference in Glasgow and other crucial summits and international conferences, the decade might see the fastest economic transition ever, according to leading climate scientist, Johan Rockstrom. Despite the discouraging outlook, he said he was confident.
"We are a resilient species and innovative species. However, the window for a safe Earth landing is just barely open," warned Rockstrom, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
"Action must be exponential, joint and parallel, instead of gradual," he said. "Otherwise, the Paris climate goals will not be met, nor will the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals."
Held days after US President Joe Biden's online climate summit, the meeting, called "Our Planet, Our Future," gathers Nobel prize winners and other scientific and political leaders from around the world to explore steps to move the world toward a more sustainable and prosperous future for all before the end of the decade.
