Climate change will reach 1. 5º C in 2035

Climate change is not an isolated issue. And by 2035 it will reach 1.5°C, according to the “calculator” of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), whose director, Carlo Buontempo, has warned that everything indicates that in 2023 high temperatures will remain after a 2022 of extreme maximums.

The UN climate expert group (IPCC) calls for limiting global warming to 1.5°C over the century from pre-industrial levels to avoid irreparable consequences of climate change, such as the disappearance of islands or coastal areas under the sea.

This limit came after the Paris Agreement (2015), whose signatories pledged to act to keep the increase in the Earth’s surface temperature well below 2°C and strive to limit it to 1.5°C (average temperature over 30 years).

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