Cop26: What does the 1.5C target mean and why does it matter?
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As a result countries pledged to keep global temperature rises to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5C over the long-term. In one of its most sobering findings, the report said coral reefs would decline by 70-90 per cent with global warming of 1.5C, but would all but vanish in a 2C world. “Limiting warming to 1.5C clearly needs much more urgent emissions cuts than is currently happening, but if the target is still breached we should not assume all is lost and give up - it will still be worth continuing action on emissions reductions to avoid even more warming.” Are we off track to meet a 1.5C limit? The 2018 IPCC report said to limit temperature rises to 1.5C the world would have to cut carbon emissions by 45 per cent on 2010 levels by 2030, and to net zero - with any remaining pollution absorbed by measures such as planting trees - by 2050.
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