COP 27

• Earth may have passed through five dangerous tipping points due to the 1.1⁰ C of global heating caused by humanity to date.
• Technology became a survival strategy for human species, but the degree of techno-determinism that exists in the strategy to reverse climate change is alarming.
• Technology is unprepared to deal with the challenge, which requires a societal overhaul & a zero emission strategy.

• COP26 at Glasgow fuelled technological optimism.
• There was an observation that every technological solution discussed at COP26 depends on three resources: nelectricity(non-emitting electricity generated by hydropower), carbon capture & storage(CCS) or biomass.
• The total demand for those resources required by the plans discussed at COP26 cannot be met by 2050.
• Currently there is 4kWh/day of nelectricity but COP26 plans require 32; 6Kg of CCS per person per year is available now but COP26 requiure 3,600.
• A person consumes 100kg/per year of plant based food, but producing enough bio-kerosene to fly at today's levels requires 200kg of additional harvest.
• There is no possibility that the supplies of these will be near the levels required by the plans discussed at COP26.
• A recent study reported that the world would need a nuclear plant's worth of clean-energy capacity everyday between 2000 & 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change.
• MIT technology reported that at the given rate, the world will take nearly 400years to transform the energy system.
• Tech-centric mitigation conversations leave forest economies  which are the best carbon removal instruments, to the ideological fringes of climate conservation.
• Climate action requires the same amount of investment in conservation as in shiny new technology transfers.
• While there was the deforestation ending climate commitment at COP26, the nature of the pledge was vague.
• Countries may attempt to achieve their 'net zero deforestation goals' through monocluture farming.
• The climate crisis is intertwined with other complex issues which means that it must be insisted on multi-pronged, interconnected climate solutions.
• Forests which are home to 80% of terrestrial wildlife, are at intersection of climate change.
• Forests absorb a net 7.6 billion metric tonnes of carbondioxide a year. A new study found that their biophysical aspects have a tendency to cool the earth by an additional 0.5%.
• The conservation of forests can provide upto 37% of the emissions reduction needed to tackle climate change.
• The green infrastructures-salt marshes & mangroves are 2-5 times cheaper than grey infrastructure-breakwaters.
• The annual gross carbon emissions from tropical tree cover loss between 2015-17 was equivalent to 4.8 billion tonnes.
• This causes more emissions each year than 85 million cars do in their life time.
• Nearly 34% of total net anthropogenic green house gas emissions came from the energy supply sector, 24% from industry, 22% from agriculture, forestry, 15% from transport & 6% from buildings.

• The IPCC land report estimates that land serves as a large carbondioxide sink.
• There is a growing body of evidence that a large proportion of the required removals could be achieved by conserving-natural sinks, improving biodiversity protection & restoring ecosystems.