The climate is lost when we fill this cube

This video was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Find out more here: http://gatesnot.es/3bdZ4CK

In this video I talk about how much carbon we can emit into the Earth's atmosphere before climate change gets really serious. This is based on a paper published by Allen et al (2009) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08019 which claims the atmosphere has a capacity of approximately one trillion tonnes of carbon. This capacity is contributed to by global carbon emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other compounds. In order to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, we must avoid emitting the trillionth tonne of carbon, it's that simple! Achieving this is of course is more difficult, and will involve sweeping changes to power generation, agriculture, transport, manufacturing, and more. This video is a brief introduction to how we need to change our economy in these sectors to limit carbon emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change.

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Видео The climate is lost when we fill this cube канала Simon Clark