Earth 2.0°C: How to make crossing the 1.5°C climate change threshold an opportunity

A addressing the climate crisis will be difficult and will require focused attention and action. It's not a problem that's going away, and in fact, a lot of new evidence shows that the world is warming and changing faster in terms of weather than we expected just a few years ago. Many highly vulnerable populations and ecosystems are already facing the devastating effects of climate change. While COP28 meeting in Dubai provided at the end of last year glimmers of hope , that countries around the world can respond meaningfully to climate change, it is increasingly clear that global temperature increases will exceed the 1.5°C (2.7°F) threshold first defined as part of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. recorded a warming of approximately 1.15 °C above the baseline from the 19th century and in the mid-1930s it will probably surpass the global level of 1.5 °C. The window of opportunity to prevent this event will soon close, as significant obstacles include a lack of finance and institutional capacity, not to mention poverty, consumption and a lack of trust in society. (WILLIAM SOLECKÁ)