Martin Wolf talks to Adair Turner: Can the world decarbonise fast enough?

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  When I was born in 1946,

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  the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 312 parts per million.

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  Today it is 427 parts per million.

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  That may not sound much,

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  but it means that 3/4 of all human carbon emissions have happened during my lifetime.

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  It means that the cooler, calmer climate of my childhood is gone forever,

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  or at least for a very long time.

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  And because we continue to burn fossil fuels faster than ever before,

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  it means that we are rushing headlong into a hotter, more turbulent future faster than ever before.

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  For all the sound and fury coming from Donald Trump, the war in Ukraine,

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  or China's global ambitions, this is arguably the biggest challenge facing the world.

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  And we've barely scratched the surface of it.

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  So what hope do we have of heading off the worst consequences of climate change?

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  Can we decarbonize the global economy fast enough?

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  Or is our species doomed to inflict irreversible damage on the natural systems we depend on for our well being?

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  FOREIGN.

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  This is the Economics Show.

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  I'm Martin Wolff, the FT's chief economics commentator.

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  Joining me in the studio is Lord Adair Turner,

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  a man with a long and distinguished career in business and policymaking in the uk.

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