Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years at current emissions levels – new research: Mykhailo Pavlenko/Shutterstock If humanity wants to have a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit 250 another gigatonnes (billion metric tonnes) of CO?. This effectively gives the world just six years to get …
1.5°C: where the target came from – and why we’re losing sight of its importance: Javier Ballester/Shutterstock The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2°C would “push global conditions past any point that any human civilisation …
Climate breakdown: even if we miss the 1.5°C target we must still fight to prevent every single increment of warming: aappp/shutterstock Is it game over for our attempts to avert dangerous climate change? For millions of people in India and Pakistan the answer is clearly yes as they continue to suffer from a record-breaking spring …
Safe havens for coral reefs will be almost non-existent at 1.5°C of global warming – new study: Ajit S N/Shutterstock Coral reefs have long been regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ecological casualties of global warming. In new research published in the journal PLOS Climate, we found that the future of these …
Ten years to 1.5°C: how climate anxiety is affecting young people around the world – podcast: In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to a climate scientist who just updated a clock he created that counts down the seconds until the world reaches 1.5°C of global warming. And we hear from experts …
COP26: what would the world be like at 3°C of warming and how would it be different from 1.5°C?: A small increase in average temperature means a much bigger increase in the risk of severe droughts. Galyna Andrushko / shutterstock In the Paris Agreement, countries committed to seek to limit the increase in temperature to …
South Africa in the news: COP26 summit opens: Focus on how to hit 1.5°C target — and billions in funding: World leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss how best to meet the promises made in Paris, 2015, at COP21. Led by COP26 President Alok Sharma, the negotiations will centre on how to avoid a …
Climate change: ditch 90% of world’s coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5°C – experts: Global mean surface temperatures reached 1.2°C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5°C in as little as a decade. …
IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words: California wild fires, 2013. Stuart Palley/EPA Earth could exceed 1.5°C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement – as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark …
Climate crisis: keeping hope of 1.5°C limit alive is vital to spurring global action: Ever since governments at the 2015 Paris climate summit set 1.5°C as the desired limit for global warming, scientists and journalists alike have regularly asked whether it is achievable. The question arose again recently when the UN published a report of …
Paris Agreement: aiming for 1.5°C target could slow global warming within next two decades: Mika Baumeister/Unsplash, CC BY-SA On the eve of the Paris Agreement’s fifth anniversary, a global summit will convene to reaffirm ambition to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. But global temperatures have already increased by nearly 1.2°C, and continue to …
Global food system emissions alone threaten warming beyond 1.5°C – but we can act now to stop it: Pajtica/Shutterstock How people grow food and the way we use the land is an important, though often overlooked, contributor to climate change. While most people recognise the role of burning fossil fuels in heating the atmosphere, there …
Why Africa stands to benefit if rise in global temperatures is kept to 1.5°C: It would be in Africa’s best interests to limit a rise in global temperature. Shutterstock At the end of the century, if carbon emissions aren’t reduced faster, the global temperature is likely to be 2.6°C to 4.8°C higher than it was …
What will the world actually look like at 1.5°C of warming?: underworld / shuttstock The high ambition of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to “well below 2°C”, was driven by concern over long-term sea level rise. A warmer climate inevitably means melting ice – you don’t need a computer model to predict this, …