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50% chance of crossing the +1.5°C threshold within 5 years, according to the UN
The climate forecasts are not improving. According to a new climate bulletin released Tuesday by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a one in two chance that the 1.5°C threshold will be temporarily crossed within five years. It should be noted that the UN is not speaking here of a lasting overrun of this threshold, in the sense understood by the Paris climate agreement.
The probability of a temporary overshoot of this threshold, indexed to pre-industrial values,
Energy, industry, transport… IPCC solutions to try to stay below +1.5°C
And now, on to the solutions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is publishing the third chapter of its assessment report on Monday, the first since 2014. After the scientific finding of global warming in the first part, published in August 2021, then its consequences in the second part in February, the UN experts this time give the keys to limit the damage to the 195 signatory States.
This work is based on scenarios divided into eight categories, from