Global emissions have to decline
Immediately
for 2°C and 1.5°C (1.5C now way too late)
IPCC Chair COP26, (IPCC AR6 WG3)
Global disastrous fixed 1.5°C 2030 or soon after and 2°C by 2050
“In all mitigation scenarios, crossing the 1.5°C threshold lies
in the early 2030s” 2°C is crossed by 2050 (IPCC AR6 WG1 Ch.4-555)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2022 6th Assessment (AR6) has global emissions declining 2020-2025(C1) by immediate action for 2°C and 1.5°C
CHILDREN
Small children are most vulnerable to all climate change impacts, in all regions,
though especially vulnerable in low latitudes and Africa.
Climate change should be about today's children, never mentioned
Climate Emergency Institute
State of the Climate in 2023, WMO March 2024: WMO sounded a Red 'Alert on climate change worldwide' Annual report on the state of the global climate, confirms 2023 was the hottest ever recorded for 174 years (by far)
'Records were again broken, and in some cases smashed, for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic Sea ice cover, and glacier retreat'.
The report emphasised that 'warming is expected to continue—a change which is irreversible on scales of hundreds to thousands of years'.
State of Climate
site
It is clear that the global climate emergency is worse than ever
Global temperatureand atmospheric CO2 are record high increasing
faster than ever
Yet it is being ignored more than ever
To limit warming to 1.5°C and 2°C
global emissions had to be declining by 2020.
(many references over many years)
The IPCC (6th Assessment) now says global
decline has to be immediate
"2020 to 2025 very latest".
AGU 2024 Presentation (American Geophysical Union) annual conference
2024 Accelerating atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and global warming
April 2025 marked the end of a 21 month run of above 1.5C
April 2025 was the 21st month in a 22-month period for which the global-average surface air temperature was
more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
April 2025 was 1.51°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial April average for 1850-1900
(Copernicus)
As of June 2025, globally the annual average for the latest 12-month period was 1.55°C above 1850-1900
(Copernicus)