Cutting emissions still critical, but countries must now deal with much more dangerous warming

We will need new strategies and new technologies to contain the damage, but first—how can we know for sure that we will go through 1.5 degrees C by 2035, or possibly even by 2030?

U.S. President Joe Biden is hosting a climate summit aimed at challenging global leaders to exceed their Paris climate targets to prevent temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius. Flickr photo by Matt Johnson

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 21, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—You can tuck your head between your knees and kiss your target of “not-more-than-1.5-degrees-Celsius-warming” goodbye. Trump is out and Biden is in, and you will hear a lot of talk about meeting that never exc...

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