Dr Katja Frieler considers the next century following the Paris climate agreement

Dr Katja Frieler, of the
 Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research,
considering the next 100 years.

At the Paris climate summit, delegates have struck an agreement that calls for the world to “hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5℃”.

But the climate action pledges made by 185 countries ahead of the summit don’t add up to 1.5℃ or warming or even 2℃. Taken together, they add up to a 2.7℃ world.

As the negotiations go on, 2015 is about to set a new global temperature record, and is likely to have reached 1℃ warming already.

Read the piece on The Conversation by the Deputy Chair, Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Katja Frieler - “This is what will happen to the climate in the next 100 years.”