
The 1.5C target for global heating must prevail
Even if we overshoot the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Agreement, we must return to it as quickly as possible.
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Joeri Rogelj is professor of climate science and policy at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. He is a lead author of reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the United Nations Environment Programme.

Even if we overshoot the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Agreement, we must return to it as quickly as possible.