In 2015, almost all country in the world signed onto the Paris Agreement. It is a landmark international treaty under which 195 nations pledged to hold the Earth’s temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” and aim to “limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
To hold long-term average temperature to below the 1.5-degree threshold, the world will have to reach net zero emissions by the year 2050.
The recent Los Angeles fires is an example of the irreversible impact of the 1.5-degree climate threshold breached. Further reading available here.
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