The past few years of punishingly cruel heat have tested the strength of the residents of Nagla Tulai. It hit 49C (120F) in May, the highest it has been in over a century. More than 50 deaths have been attributed to the record-breaking heat in Nagla Tulai since then. It is one of the few villages in India that is still without electricity. No fans, no coolers, and no air conditioners are included in the list. Men in the village have been forced to work two hours a day in order to avoid the sun's heat. They're worried they'll have to leave Nagla Tulai if they can't find jobs in cities that will pay enough for them to take their families with them.
Carbon needs to be drawn down not just stopped.
The world will need to remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, on top of rapid emissions cuts, to pull the planet back from increasingly dangerous warming levels. Building greenhouse-gas sucking factories and using minerals to lock up carbon are some of the methods being worked on by researchers and startup companies. There are real concerns that the growing focus on lowering levels of the greenhouse gas could encourage governments and businesses to delay or even avoid the most obvious and direct way of addressing climate change: preventing emissions from reaching the atmosphere. After decades of delay, there are few ways to meet climate change goals that don't require both cutting emissions today and building the capacity to suck up vast amounts of carbon dioxide in the future. The full story is available to read.
Jane Flegal is the market development and policy lead at Stripe Climate.
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