Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
Navigating the New Reality of Life in the Anthropocene
063 | COVID-19 and the 2020 Emissions Chasm Report
The UN's Emissions Gap Report showed that the current Paris Agreement Climate Plans (NDCs )will leave us nowhere near where we need to be to avert a climate catastrophe.
Will Burns of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University joins me in a year-end retrospective.
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