Global temperature closing in on 1.5 C limit in global treaty, UN agency reports | CBC News
The
prediction comes as governments are due to meet in New York for the
UN Climate Action Summit to build on their pledges from the 2015 Paris
Agreement, which aims to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees.
prediction comes as governments are due to meet in New York for the
UN Climate Action Summit to build on their pledges from the 2015 Paris
Agreement, which aims to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees.
The
agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations, set a goal of limiting
warming to “well below” a rise of 2 C above pre-industrial times while
“pursuing efforts” for the tougher 1.5 C goal.
A rise of 2 C is expected to wipe out more than 99 per cent of coral reefs and melt most of the sea ice in the Arctic.
“Basically
we are on track to reach at least 1.2 to 1.3 degrees centigrade [above
pre-industrial levels] over the next five years,” Omar Baddour, WMO
senior scientific officer, said in response to a Reuters question at a
Geneva news conference.