16 September 2020
To achieve the Paris Agreement objective of limiting global warming to well below 2ºC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that it is necessary for us to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Governments and organisations are setting targets to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier).
In this paper, members of the Actuaries Institute (Australia)’s Climate Change Working Group discuss the actions that are being taken around the world and domestically to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.