… change by limiting global heating to well below 2 degrees C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees C. The UK government signed the Paris Agreement committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The world is now on track to overshoot the 1.5°C limit before the year 2050 – the outcome of which would be severe and not possible to reverse. 2000 1950 1900 1850 5 CLIMATE…
… change, the impacts of which are being felt around the world; 3. That average global temperatures have now increased by 1°C above pre-industrial levels; 4. That, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report published in January 2019, the world is now on track to overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit before 2050 – the consequences of which would be dire…