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This young woman spent two days on a train to get here because she refuses to fly now. Governments should already be acting on this, following the lead of @scotgov
@scotgov Addressing climate change is not easy and there is no magic formula to turn back the climate clock. The warnings reach back four decades - Climate Change and Society was published in 1981, for example - but Government action has been fairly thin on the ground
@scotgov That's why the Scottish Government's action is so important. It got the approval of Laurent Fabius and it seems to be under continual review - gov.scot/policies/clima…
@scotgov Is it enough? Not on its own - no one nation can turn this around on its own - but it's a start. Scotland is setting targets that will be hard to meet but what would be the point to targets that were easy?
@scotgov It's not a single party doing this, either, the Scottish Parliament seems to be in general agreement that these measures need to be taken. There are, of course, dissenting voices and they are important because every policy should be challenged and tested.
Holyrood is leading the way, though, and we should be encouraged that there are attempts being made. Our lives will have to change, our society will have to change and that will not be comfortable or easy but it is necessary
Politicians like to talk in apocalyptic terms and take to slugging it out to score points. I don't think this issue can bear that and we should look to greater cooperation rather than trying to win the debate. That may be why Holyrood is delivering some results
Scotland's Parliament has a lot more cross-party cooperation than you are likely to see reported. Consensus and common working are key to delivering results but it doesn't make for very good headlines. We need that model to work and we need international cooperation, too
The IPCC was created in 1988 and its reports have been important in creating the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. Changing how countries act takes time and effort. We've had plenty of time but not nearly enough effort so ramping it up now is important
There's another IPCC report due next month (a refinement of the 2006 guidance) but until we match global political will to act to the political will to request information we won't be changing any future direction of travel - ipcc.ch/report/2019-re…
The EU has been driving some of the agenda on addressing climate change and I hope we'll see that continue. What would happen to UK efforts after Brexit is something that should concern all of us, though - do we just lose all of that? ec.europa.eu/clima/policies…
