"Many vulnerable countries have campaigned for years to limit global warming with the slogan '1.5 to stay alive", but climate scientists say the world will almost inevitably 'overshoot' 1.5C"
"GLASGOW - An overarching goal for the COP26 U.N. summit of "keeping alive" a 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global warming is in jeopardy, with deep splits about what would signal its demise.
Global average surface temperatures are already up about 1.1C above pre-industrial times.
And climate scientists say they will almost inevitably "overshoot" 1.5C, the most ambitious goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement, as planet-heating emissions rebound after a dip due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some nations, especially island states at risk of being swamped by rising seas, say reaching 1.5C - in any year - would be the death knell of the iconic goal."
Alister Doyle reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation November 9, 2021.
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