Action needed to avoid disastrous overshoot of climate targets, according to organisation’s environment body
The world needs to cut carbon emissions by nearly a fifth in the next four years, and by close to half within a decade, to avoid overshooting climate targets by a disastrous margin.
Although the “window has closed” on holding temperature rises to 1.5C, in line with scientific advice, limiting the “overshoot” of that target is still possible, according to the UN Environment Programme (Unep).
But countries are failing to translate their long-term targets on reducing emissions into short-term actions, a report on the “emissions gap” between climate goals and policies has found.
are you comparing highway to highway and city to city. this does not seem right.
Good question! I was going for the average between the two. Anyway, I should never have brought up mpg, too complex a topic for a simple post.
Here’s a weird example: My old F150 costs little more than my wife’s old Outback when picking up the kids 350 miles away, but on city mileage it’s abysmal. I have no idea why this is. $30 more on a 700-mile roundtrip doesn’t make sense.
yeah I would think the more boxy and hight profile vehicle would do worse with wind resistance. maybe its the mass. more stop and go in the city so more having to get it going and stopping it and the mass then might be multiplicative but it could be when moving at a steady speed it ends up being minimal change. heck I wonder if the better ground clearance is more conducive to the air moving easier past it.