05 Dec 2018, Arthur F. Lutz
Even 1.5 degrees is too much for South Asia
Last October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finalized its special report “Global Warming of 1.5 °C”, in response to the signing of the “Paris Agreement” in 2015, where the global mutual aim to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 °C was agreed upon. The IPCC report outlines the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Now what would a 1.5 °C global temperature increase imply for South Asia?
