Greta Thunberg

Recent claims

• Unless drastic changes, including a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions, are achieved immediately, an impending environmental tipping point predicted around 2030 will render human intervention futile.
  Jun 30, 2025
• Humanity is perilously close to a point of no return regarding climate change, with only about twelve years left from January 25, 2019, to avert catastrophic outcomes, meaning by January 25, 2031, if current trends continue.
  Jun 30, 2025
• Our CO2 emissions are expected to rise by another 16% by 2030.
  Oct 8, 2022
• Global emissions of carbon dioxide must peak by 2020 to keep the planet below 1.5°C.
  May 13, 2020
• On January 1st 2018, approximately 420 gigatons of CO2 were left to emit in the carbon budget to have a 67% chance to limit the global average temperature rise to below 1.5°C. If world nations continue to emit carbon at business as usual rates, that remaining budget will be gone before 2030.
  Mar 6, 2020
• With today's emissions levels, the remaining carbon budget is gone in less than eight years, which means it will fall below 570 gigatons by January 2028, making it impossible to stop the Earth from heating 1.5º Celsius.
  Jan 21, 2020
• The remaining CO2 budget (to have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise), which was less than 350 gigatons on September 23, 2019, will be entirely gone with today's emissions levels.
  Sep 23, 2019
• The economy should be transformed to 100% renewable energy by 2030 and all deforestation should be stopped by 2030.
  Sep 4, 2019
• The EU must reduce its CO2 emissions by 80% by 2030 to limit global warming to less than the two degrees C goal established at the Paris Agreement.
  Feb 21, 2019
• Climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
  Jun 21, 2018