GSI Presents - Dr James Dyke 'Living beyond limits: Consequences of exceeding 1.5°C and other planetary boundaries'

If the aim of the 2015 Paris Agreement was to limit warming to well below 2°C, then it has failed. A decade ago there was a narrow window in which warming could be stabilised. That would have required actions to phase out fossil fuels. This did not materialise. Carbon dioxide emissions in 2024 were at an all-time high, while the 12 months of the year were warmest ever in the instrument record, likely warmest for at least 125,000 years.

We are now overshooting into dangerous climate change. Climate-related loss and damages, morbidity, and mortality will increase. Rising economic, political and wider social disruption is to be expected. This includes degradation of the institutions and norms that underpins collective action.

Policy makers and academics must go beyond exhortations to act and propose measures that will address the consequences of past failures.

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