In order to address human-induced climate change, according to the United Nations, the global economy will have to undergo a decade of annual economic recessions worse than the one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
Global industrial greenhouse gas emissions dropped by an estimated 7% in 2020, or by 2.4 billion tonnes compared to 2019, because of the worldwide economic lockdowns caused by COVID-19.
But the UN says to avert what it describes as catastrophic climate change (a global temperature increase of more than 1.5C by the end of this century), global emissions will have to decrease by 7.6% annually between 2021 and 2030.
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