Burning Questions: A Collection of Perspectives on Climate Action
Last year was the hottest on record. For the first time, the annual average global temperature pierced the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set by the Paris Agreement a decade earlier. That threshold was established by the 195 nations that signed the agreement in 2015 in an attempt to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. While the threshold was an ambitious target, scientists and policymakers hoped that at that level the worst effects of a warming planet—including increased frequency of extreme weather, irreversible damage to ecosystems, climate-related migration and deaths, and sea level rise—could be mitigated and managed. ….[READ]
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