There is no solution to the climate crisis that does not involve confronting the supply of fossil fuels. Whatever we extract will almost certainly be burnt so we need to turn our attention to how we wind down extraction. Some thoughts about today’s @UNEP's #ProductionGap Report.

The report confirms the scale of the challenge. It makes clear that to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, as the Paris Agreement calls for, "the world will need to decrease fossil fuel production by roughly 6% per year between 2020 and 2030".

And yet the report details that countries are planning average *increases* of 2% per year for the next decade – more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with a 1.5°C limit.

And for all the talk of the world pursuing a 'green recovery' from the coronavirus pandemic, it shows that global Covid stimulus measures are taking us further from where we need to be, not closer; "locking in severe climate disruption" in the words of the report.

Our country must work to reverse this damaging trend by committing to a managed transition here at home, one that has fairness at its heart, and playing its part to ensure there is a renewed global effort to phase out of fossil fuel production.

There are huge benefits to be secured if we do so in terms of "high-quality jobs, improvements in public health, a re-envisioning of urban areas, and a refocusing of economic systems on human well-being and equitably shared prosperity". Full report here: https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/production-gap-2020