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Tackling climate change seemed expensive. Then COVID happened

Hmmm. Seems there was enough money all along. What a surprise!

If just 12 percent of currently pledged COVID-19 stimulus funding were spent every year through 2024 on low-carbon energy investments and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, the researchers said, that would be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious climate target.

And yet the UK govt seems to be planning for nearly 4 degrees.

Insanity