‘Limit overshoot, peak, decline’: A new global goal for climate change?
- The signing of the Paris Agreement by 200 countries in 2015 was a rare moment of global unity, and the euphoria was real.
- To cheers and tears, the international climate treaty was approved by nearly every country in the world.
- Fundamental to the agreement was a commitment to keeping temperatures from rising beyond 1.5C (2.7F) above the pre-industrial levels of the mid 19th-century.
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- The signing of the Paris Agreement by 200 countries in 2015 was a rare moment of global unity, and the euphoria was real.
- To cheers and tears, the international climate treaty was approved by nearly every country in the world.
- Fundamental to the agreement was a commitment to keeping temperatures from rising beyond 1.5C (2.7F) above the pre-industrial levels of the mid 19th-century.
Sources: Al Jazeera