The United Nations admitted that the planet is heading toward exceeding the 1.5°C global warming target established by the Paris Agreement in the coming years. For years, this limit was treated as a warning, but now it has begun to become reality.
Heat and rainfall intensify, while drought takes longer to go away. Forests, cities, rivers, and lives are subjected to increasing pressure, as described in the article.
Marcio Astrini, executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, stated that exceeding the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target is something extremely serious. According to him, this number was not chosen at random, but rather based on scientific projections and the capacity for resilience and recovery of ecosystems around the planet.
Astrini explained that crossing this 1.5°C barrier will put various regions on the brink of collapse, meaning that many places will lose their capacity for recovery.
