… The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was adopted at a meeting of 195 nations in December 2015. This included the aim of ‘holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.’ 3.8 In October 2018 the IPCC published a special report, further to the Paris…
… Agreement, finding that globally actions to limit global greenhouse gas emissions to meet the 1.5°C target were not happening fast enough and that ‘rapid and far-reaching’ transitions were required across land use, energy use, industry, buildings and cities. The IPCC report warned that failure to act could result in ‘tipping points’ being reached in our planet’s natural systems. These were likely…