We strongly support strengthening our 2050 targets, acknowledging the significant health gains associated with well-designed climate action and the necessary deepening of such action that global equity demands. We call for swifter and more ambitious cuts in our short-lived and long-lived gases. This is in recognition that the window for remaining under average warming of 1.5˚C is much smaller and closing. The risk of crossing irreversible climate tipping points should not be underestimated, and these need to be part of any decision on the rapidity of biogenic methane cuts.
OraTaiao's full submission to He Pou a Rangi The Climate Change Commission, prepared by Dr Dermot Coffey, is available here.
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