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Imagine a party balloon represents 100 million tonnes of CO2.

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How many do you need to show one year’s worth of global emissions? Well, we did the maths and it turns out quite a lot actually.

[But don't worry, the balloons are biodegradable.]

With the world still getting over the hangover of another uninspiring UN COP summit - where world leaders failed to agree on substantial actions needed to take the climate crisis head-on - we look at the world's carbon emissions problem and why making Net Zero by 2050 is a serious challenge.


Sources: OurWorldInData / Global Carbon Project [https://www.icos-cp.eu/science-and-impact/global-carbon-budget/2021]
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