BBCNEWS Ros Atkins On The Week June 4, 2024 03:45:00
We will not make it. but that's not to say that if countries stepped up and did more, we couldn't make it. getting countries to step up, though, is, of course, what's proving difficult. butjohn kerry has a broader point — that this isn't 1.5 or bust, that every tenth of a degree matters. and that was backed up by a major un report on the difference between global warming of 1.5 and of 2 degrees. it says 99% of coral reefs, for example, would be wiped out at 2 degrees of warming. 0r there's global sea levels — they'd rise by about ten centimetres more at 2 degrees. and keeping to 1.5 means ...