The goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees is no longer likely to be achieved, the latest report of the United Nations chief climate body says, though scientists still believe warming may be stabilised and returned under the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious warming target after a period of “overshoot”.
According to the report’s 65-page summary for world governments, its models show that if the world was to hold warming to 1.5 degrees, we would need to have greenhouse gas emissions peak by 2025 and have “rapid and deep [greenhouse gas] emissions reductions follow throughout 2030, 2040 and 2050”.
He said the impacts of 2 degrees were far worse than 1.5 degrees, but that until recent changes in policy around the world and reductions in the cost of renewable technologies, that target appeared out of reach too. “The reference point here is what is realistically achievable,” he said. Limiting warming to about 1.5 degrees required global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest, and be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030; at the same time, methane would also need to be reduced by about a third, the IPCC said in a statement.“Even if we do this, it is almost inevitable that we will temporarily exceed this temperature threshold but could return to below it by the end of the century.
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