The Paris Climate Agreement was reached in 2015 – a landmark deal to limit our planet’s global heating to well below 2°C and “pursue efforts” to limit warming to 1.5°C. But now, 11 years later, it’s confirmed that this was a lie. Not a single country in the world has pursued efforts that would keep heating to this relatively safe level. And a United Nations report has now confirmed that passing 1.5 of global warming is now inevitable and imminent.
So does that mean it’s game over? How will passing 1.5 affect our world and us? And why does this mean that the fight against climate change is more urgent than ever before.
