Piers Forster receives funding from EU and UK research councils. He is a member of the UK government's Climate Change Committee and a trustee of a woodland restoration charity (the United Bank of ...
WHEN THE ECONOMIST warned in 2022 that keeping global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was no longer plausible, we took some flak. Critics worried that such thinking sapped the ...
Nearly 200 nations shaped their climate plans around this number: 1.5 degrees Celsius. But that target, set seven years ago when there was less carbon in the sky, will almost certainly be overshot.