How should we live on a planet where the rate of extreme weather events seem to be increasing, and humanity is the cause?
“We’re not doing well in terms of global temperatures at all. We’re on a dangerous trajectory. We are not going to keep below the 1.5°C on average limit, that seems really clear. We’re actually over 1.5°C in terms of individual years already, but the target was stated in terms of multi-year averages. It’s clear, with the inertia and the climate system, that we’re going to exceed that. It also seems quite clear that we’re going to exceed the 2.0°C limit the way things are going. We just don’t have the kind of policy action that we need internationally,” explained Dr Kai Chan, a professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at University of British Columbia, Lead Editor of the new British Ecological Society journal ‘People and Nature‘ and co-founder of CoSphere for a community of small planet heroes.
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