To prevent climate change climate breakdown and keep global warming global heating below 3–4 degrees celsius, we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to renewable energy – globally.

Here’s a graphical blueprint on how we might get to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Created in association with New Internationalist Magazine.
» See the consequences of various degrees of global warming: How Many Gigatonnes of CO2 and When Sea Levels Attack
» Our infographic breakdown of carbon sequestration technologies and why they are unfeasible
» For more detail and data: The Exponential Climate Action Roadmap
» A recent book posits a big, necessary role for nuclear power (we’ll update our chart once we’ve absorbed the data)

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Credits

Concept: David McCandless, Duncan Geere, Hazel Healy
Research: Duncan Geere
Additional design: Fabio Bergamaschi

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