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.
Anantara, Turkey—Amidst encouraging discussions on clean energy and social gatherings during the annual United Nations COP31 conference on climate change, two recent studies served as a sobering reminder of the global community's ongoing struggle to mitigate rising temperatures. The Climate Action Tracker, a non-profit organization that assesses climate policies, revealed that the planet is still on course to experience an increase of nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100.
This dramatic rise would have catastrophic consequences, including the destruction of coral reefs, the disruption of agriculture and forests, and the melting of most of the world's ice.
In a separate yet equally alarming report, the European Union's Copernicus climate change service noted that global warming has intensified considerably since the signing of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. The Paris agreement aimed to keep the average global temperature from rising more than 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels by the year 2045.
However, according to Copernicus, this benchmark is now expected to be surpassed as early as 2029, following the implementation of further climate summits since the agreement's inception.
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