UK’s share of the global carbon budget will be used up in 3.3 years

How urgent is an “emergency?”1 After the 2019 street protests, many national and local administrations declared a climate emergency but have since failed to implement the “rapid and far reaching transitions” recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 report2 that sparked the protests.

The urgency of the climate emergency can be quantified by the carbon budget—how much more carbon dioxide (CO_{2 …}