At the opening of COP30, the IPCC president now stated that warming beyond 1.5°C is “almost inevitable”

One more warning to act. The President of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has provided an assessment “almost unavoidable” to exceed the 1.5°C warming threshold in the short term, which is the goal set in the Paris agreement in 2015. “It is now almost inevitable that global warming will exceed 1.5°C in the short term, and this is clearly due to the lack of climate action in recent years and the resulting continued increase in greenhouse gas emissions.”said Jim Skea, president of the research group that forms scientific consensus on climate, in a video message at the opening of COP30 in Belem, Brazil.

“But global warming could still be limited to 1.5°C by the end of the century”said Jim Skea, adding to that “This will involve rapid, deep and long-lasting reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the removal of a large proportion of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”

The UN and many climate experts have acknowledged that this level of warming will be reached soon, and have called for the excess to be temporary, to be measured in decades. Scientists emphasize the dangers of every tenth of a degree of warming beyond +1.5°C, with unpredictable impacts on ecosystems and human life, including heat waves, droughts, fires, floods, storms, sea level rise, destruction of biodiversity, etc.