The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C last week, and it paints a bleak picture. First, it highlights the devastating consequences of failing to curtail global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, and the grave impact of the additional 0.5ºC above this threshold. And second, it […]
The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now released its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC. An earlier post on this blog provided a brief background of the context in which this report was written. In a nutshell The Special Report paints a grim picture. First, it highlights the consequences of failing to […]
The Special Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be released tomorrow, is a document that has been anxiously awaited by the global community. Paris Agreement Goals The Paris Agreement signed in 2015 is the definitive global instrument concerning climate change. Article 2(1)(a) of the Paris Agreement, 2015 sets out one […]
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