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Environmental experts continue to see evidence that the planet is likely to warm by two degrees Celsius by 2050, which would mean that the world would fail to uphold the Paris Agreement. In 2015, the Paris Agreement called for keeping the increase in climate change temperatures “well below 2 C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above preindustrial levels.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the world would likely warm by 2 C by 2050 only under a high-emission scenario. However, findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January 2023 suggested a higher likelihood that 2 C will be reached under the low scenario compared with the IPCC AR6 (Sixth Assessment Report). But it doesn’t rule out the possibility of avoiding 2 C if the low scenario is achieved.
According to Carbon Brief, which provides information on energy and climate news, presently the world is not close to being on track to meet targets to keep global warming below 2 C.
