Climate Hope for 2024
What was promising from 2023 and inspires Climify guests in 2024
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Welcome to the future, humanity! 2024 will be the year when the world unites, despite political and ideological disagreements, to create the Solarpunk tomorrow we need. Sanity and hope will reign supreme helping to drastically decrease GHG emissions, while the loud obnoxious minority is ignored.
However, as impossible as that description of 2024 may be, the world can indeed make powerful progress on ending fossil fuels forever and drawing down our GHG emissions. Despite the failures of the 2023 UN Conference of Parties — or COP28 last year, there were some true positives from the deliberations. For me, the biggest two were the zealous focus on reducing methane emissions and the establishment of the Loss and Damage Fund to provide a (small) safety net for developing nations.
(If you would like a more detailed review of COP28, both Drawdown and the World Economic Forum have fantastic critiques).