Is 1.5 degrees still a realistic goal?
di Sophia Grew
Photo: Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary di UNFCCC (Source: UNclimatechange, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED)
Keep 1.5 within reach, "keep the 1.5 degrees within reach." This was the slogan with which COP28 opened, the United Nations conference on climate change that just concluded in Dubai. The feasibility of this goal, however, now seems more uncertain than ever, even though many considered this aim too ambitious from the outset.