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At the more optimistic end of the Paris Climate Agreement targets was the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. But now, the World Meteorological Organisation is warning that the 1.5C threshold could be exceeded at some point within the next five years.聽聽

Scientists say that with around 1C of warming the world is already experiencing significant impacts such as the unprecedented wildfires seen in North America last year, or the drastic heatwaves currently hitting India and Pakistan.

Dr Maxx Dilley, the World Meteorological Organisation's Climate Director, explained the report's conclusions, and says that we could expect to see increasing extreme events more and more frequently as temperatures rise and that heatwaves are a clear sign that the world is warming to dangerous levels.

"Every decade has been warmer than the last, so project that forward and at that trend we'll cross 1.5C, and perhaps keep right on going."

"1.5C-2C is assessed as being the increase after which climate change becomes truly dangerous."

Photo: A woman and child in Delhi, India, April 2022 Credit: Getty Images

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