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| 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.”
