What do we need to realize climate change adaptation and mitigation?

According to the Land Gap Report released Nov. 1, global climate pledges by countries require reforestation and other sequestration measures taking up more land than the entire United States — indeed, require using as much land to sequester carbon as is used to produce all the world’s croplands today. The world’s governments are planning twice as much fossil fuel development as would be consistent with 1.5-degree goals, and 93 percent of corporations with net-zero pledges are off track to meet them.

McKenna, the architect of the greenwashing report, argues, “we do need to move to a more rigourous structure for sure” referring to more accurate reporting on emissions and more transparent regulatory frameworks.

“And that goes for governments too. They need to actually not just have targets. They need to actually be having policies that are going to help them reach those targets. And then, they’re goon have to be more ambitious,” she said. “You have to be more ambitious.”