The 'Build Back Better' Ballyhoo

The International Energy Agency (IEA) naturally focuses on global energy production. Electricity production often involves the burning of coal, oil, gas or biomass. All produce substantial quantities of carbon dioxide. The IEA's latest report says, global carbon dioxide emissions are likely to rise, by 2023, to their highest value in human history (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/20/emissions-record-high-by-2023-if-green-recovery-fails-says-iea). Many governments promised to 'build back better', after the Covid19 pandemic, when emissions actually declined (there was little choice over lockdowns). The IEA report that governments are failing to invest in 'green' alternatives for energy production, at the necessary speed. Even if all recovery plans were immediately implimented, global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions would continue to rise. The Paris Climate Accord suggested the world should aim for a 'safe' 1.5 degrees Centigrade rise in global temperature over pre-Industrial levels. The IEA say, failure to actually build back better, puts limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Centigrade 'all but out of reach'. Two points. Firstly, let me remind you, the IEA only deal with emissions emanating from energy production. They don't consider other emission sources such as forest clearance; agriculture; human diet; air travel; space tourism; road and rail travel; building standards etc. Secondly, 1.5 degrees Centigrade was only an educated guess! We seem to have problems at the present levels of atmospheric 'greenhouse gas' pollution?