Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029
Climate action has stalled for five years as fossil fuel development keeps growing.
Amidst the upbeat green-tech presentations and social gatherings at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, two new reports underscore the urgency of the ongoing climate crisis. The Climate Action Tracker revealed that the globe is still projected to experience a temperature increase of nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, with catastrophic consequences for ecosystems and human societies.
According to the European Union’s Copernicus climate change service, warming has intensified since the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aimed to limit global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels. However, the Copernicus data now indicates that this threshold could be reached as early as 2029, just ten years after the Paris Agreement's inception.
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