Pep Canadell
Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project and Senior Research Fellow at the CSIRO Climate Science Centre in Canberra, Australia
No matter how we look at global temperature and its evolution in the years ahead, with these new studies and everything we already knew there is now ample evidence that the Paris Agreement's most important goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C has been missed. And, unless more aggressive action on mitigation is taken quickly, so too will the goal of avoiding temperatures below 2ºC.
This is not a reason to throw in the towel, but rather to sharpen the climate and energy policies that will lead us to a decarbonised world.
Climate change is like a slippery slope with no bottom, so there is no limit to the damage it can do to our economy, health and environment. What we want to do is to apply the brakes as hard as we can so that the impacts don't get any bigger.