Children will have to emit 10 times less than grandparents to meet climate targets

The IPCC report said the global temperature in 2020 was nearly 1.1C warmer than 19th-century levels, and that the evidence was clear and incontrovertible that people are driving global warming.

Children born today will have to emit less than 10 times the emissions of their grandparents if global net-zero climate targets are to be reached by 2050, a new analysis by energy experts shows.

International Energy Agency (IEA) modellers and analysts calculated the burden on the children of today by predicting the average lifetime carbon footprint, according to a person’s year of birth.