The “State of Climate Action 2025” report from the World Resources Institute found that the world’s governments are failing on all 45 indicators of progress towards limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees. Of these, 29 indicators are “well off track”, meaning at least a twofold and for most a fourfold acceleration of progress is needed to meet end-of-decade targets.
Five indicators—the carbon intensity of steel production, the share of kilometres travelled by passenger cars, mangrove loss, share of food production lost, and public fossil fuel finance—are heading in the wrong direction.
There is not even enough data to analyse the trend for the remaining five: the rate of retrofitting buildings, the share of new buildings which are zero-carbon, peatland degradation, peatland restoration and food waste.
If you’ve ever heard of “neoliberals,” they’re not talking about Democrats, they’re talking about an economic philosophy, they’re “neo” liberals because now instead of just wanting capitalism on the national scale, they want to see it globally, which is what has happened in the past decades. China being the world’s factory, for instance, is a neoliberal greatest hit. Offload the negativities (like shitty life for labor, polluted land and water, etc) and import the positives, while netting a handy profit, what’s not to love.