Keeping 1.5 alive? IEA lists 'crucial ingredients' to keep worst effects of climate change at bay
The COP28 climate change summit is fast approaching, with a host of world leaders and high-profile public figures — including Pope Francis and King Charles III — set to attend.
Held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, COP28 will see governments, businesses, and NGO’s “take stock” of efforts to meet the goals of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.
The Paris accord — reached at COP21 — aims to “limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.”
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.