World close to 'irreversible' climate breakdown, warn major studies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% :Prof Myles Allen, at the University of Oxford, said: "The combined profits, taxes and royalties generated by the oil and gas industry over the past few months would be enough to capture every single molecule of CO2 produced by their activities and reinject it back underground.
49% : Separately, the IEA's world energy report offered a glimmer of progress, that CO2 from fossil fuels could peak by 2025 as high energy prices push nations towards clean energy, though it warned that it would not be enough to avoid severe climate impacts.
43% : The IEA said clean energy investment would have to be at least $4tn a year by 2030 to hit net zero emissions by mid-century.

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