In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth report, presenting these critical data points: the global temperature has risen by 1.1 °C since the Industrial Revolution, and carbon dioxide emissions have surged from 208 million tons in 1850 to 36.2 billion tons in 2019. This indicates that current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and surface temperatures are the highest in 2 million and 120,000 years, respectively. An analysis of the global average temperature trend over the past two millennia reveals a sharp increase in global temperatures following the Industrial Revolution. The IPCC report predicts that if global carbon dioxide emissions peak by 2050, global temperatures will rise by 2.1 °C to 3.5 °C by the end of the twenty-first century, reaching alarmingly high levels, which will have the following two significant impacts.

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Background, Industrial Rationale, and Policy Principles of China’s Dual Carbon Goals

  • Min Wang

摘要

In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth report, presenting these critical data points: the global temperature has risen by 1.1 °C since the Industrial Revolution, and carbon dioxide emissions have surged from 208 million tons in 1850 to 36.2 billion tons in 2019. This indicates that current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and surface temperatures are the highest in 2 million and 120,000 years, respectively. An analysis of the global average temperature trend over the past two millennia reveals a sharp increase in global temperatures following the Industrial Revolution. The IPCC report predicts that if global carbon dioxide emissions peak by 2050, global temperatures will rise by 2.1 °C to 3.5 °C by the end of the twenty-first century, reaching alarmingly high levels, which will have the following two significant impacts.