Global Climate Goals have failed to create a safe climate

With the Holistic Climate Triad, 

Finally, there's Hope.

We Must Restore a SAFE CLIMATE of well below 1°C warming

The Paris Climate Accord is failing

Global climate goals focus on limiting warming to 1.5° to 2° Celsius by 2050, seeking to do so almost exclusively through Emissions Reductions ALONE. 

Despite over three decades of mainly pursuing the emissions-reduction-only approach, global warming is ALREADY about to exceed 1.5°C. And, in doing so, with the observed escalation of damaging impacts, we have now learned that even this much warming and climate disruption are TOO HIGH to be considered safe, not just for vulnerable peoples and locations, but for us all.

Despite this, most mainstream interest groups and governments are continuing to maintain that Emissions Reductions Alone will be adequate.

Our view is that despite efforts made and the growing availability of low cost solar and wind technologies, Emission Reductions ALONE, even augmented by Removals, no longer offers the prospect of preventing further warming and climate disruption. They can only slow the rate of warming, no matter how aggressively they are implemented.

Healthy Planet Action Coalition believes that we must URGENTLY cool the planet to well below 1°C to preserve life as we know it. We must also fix the underlying cause of the climate crisis, so that ecosystems can ultimately heal on their own.

What is The Climate Triad?

Why Do We Need The Climate Triad?

If we continue warming, natural emissions could potentially rival man-made emissions. For example - forest fires, melting permafrost and warming oceans release methane and carbon dioxide, which creates even more warming. 

While the ratio of the warming from current feedback loops may yet be unclear, there are potentially grave risks in allowing them to amplify unabated. We simply must reduce these "feedback loops" as soon as humanly possible, to buy ourselves the needed time to fix the root cause of global warming. 

The Climate Triad is a holistic and effective solution that addresses ALL causes of global warming:

• Reducing emissions, removing greenhouse gases and directly cooling the climate are each necessary, yet insufficient by themselves to restore a safe climate. 

• Emissions reductions and greenhouse gas removal can help set the stage for reducing temperatures while limiting how much direct cooling will be needed to stabilize temperatures. 

• Cooling the climate can slow or even prevent the activation of tipping points, moderate harm and suffering, and provide the essential time needed to fully decarbonize the global energy system and reduce excessively high greenhouse gas concentrations. 

Because the three legs of the triad need to  be addressed together, and because direct climate cooling will require equitable and effective global governance, a concerted and coordinated effort by the world community, a credible climate restoration plan is urgently needed.

Current temperature trajectories under the Paris Climate Accord have global temperatures reaching well beyond 3°C post-industrial warming. 

The worst impacts affect those who can least afford it—those with low incomes and crowded in overheated cities, those living in low latitudes and in low-lying coastal areas, those facing job and housing discrimination, those most dependent for food on the land and the ocean, and especially those in countries who have contributed least to the climate crisis – especially in the Global South. Those with the least have the most to lose—both in terms of their possessions and their lives.