The world’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is on course to be breached more than a decade earlier than previously thought if recent rates of warming continue, scientists have warned.
The EU’s Earth observation service Copernicus said that on this basis the threshold would be breached by 2030, more than a decade earlier than was expected at the time of the 2015 Paris agreement, which aimed to cap warming at 1.5C above preindustrial levels or well below 2C.
Scientists believe irreversible changes to the planet will begin if temperatures over 1.5C are sustained over decades, endangering human health, food security, water supplies and economic growth.
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