1 Can we keep 1.5 alive?
“Keep 1.5 alive” has been the UN’s rallying cry for a number of years, a reference to the goal of ensuring that average global temperatures don’t soar beyond 1.5 degrees higher than pre-industrial levels. The scientific consensus is that a lack of action would have catastrophic consequences, not least for the so-called “frontline States”, such as developing island nations which could disappear under the ocean, as sea levels rise.
A man fishes sitting on sandbags which protect the Pacific Ocean island nation Tuvalu against sea erosion.
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