ABSTRACT
This chapter will analytically review the contribution made by the International Resource Panel (IRP) 2 to our understanding of the dynamics of the deep transition discussed in Chapter 4. The South African Government nominated me to be a member of this body in 2007, the year it was founded. UNEP (as it was then called) decided to establish the IRP in the wake of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that won the Nobel Prize in 2007. This report argued that the decarbonization of the global economy would only be possible if it was transformed. However, climate science cannot provide the framework for how to do this.
