Paris goals slipping from our grasp

World leaders have failed to come to grips with the epic challenge of phasing out fossil fuels and running the entire global economy almost entirely on clean energy by the middle of this century, experts said this week.

While more than 170 countries converged at the United Nations on Friday to demonstrate their support for the landmark deal to fight climate change reached at Paris last December, economists and scientists warned the accord’s goal of keeping temperatures below 1.5-2C may already be slipping beyond reach.

So far, the commitments covered by the Paris agreement would allow warming of about 2.7C, according to the UN’s own estimates – which would unleash rising seas, extreme heat and other upheavals.

Read The Guardian story - “Why the Paris climate change goals may already be slipping beyond reach.”