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Warm fluffy pledges won’t save the planet
Without detailed industrial plans, a radical shift in global economic thinking and a real Green New Deal, the climate emergency will only escalate, warns REBECCA LONG BAILEY

THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states clearly that we need a code red response to a code red emergency. 

Days into the most important Cop of our lifetime we have seen warm fluffy pledges to shift away from coal, to end public financing for “unabated” fossil fuel projects abroad and we have countries proudly outlining their own targets to decarbonise industrial sectors. 

Any action is of course positive but what we have seen so far is sparse. Sadly more toothless targets are not the code red response the world truly needs.

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