Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
- Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic
How will the world actually deliver on the Paris climate ambition to hold global warming to no more than 1.5°C? It’s a tough scientific and technical challenge.
Revendication des petits États insulaires, l’objectif de 1,5 °C comme seuil de réchauffement à ne pas dépasser a gagné une soudaine popularité dans les derniers jours de la conférence climat.
1.5 or 2 degrees? What matters is how we get there.
A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
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