{"id":14950,"date":"2015-12-01T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:53:45","slug":"global-leaders-fight-for-new-1-5-degrees-warming-target-at-cop21-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14950","title":{"rendered":"Global Leaders Fight for New 1.5 Degrees Warming Target at COP21 Climate Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/12\/01\/global-leaders-fight-new-1-5-degrees-warming-target-cop21-climate-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Global Leaders Fight for New 1.5 Degrees Warming Target at COP21 Climate Talks<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-10091 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<header>\n<p class=\"submitted desktop-only\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/AOSIS%201.5%20degree%20climate%20target%20COP21.jpeg?itok=Q9pnyTM_\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"horizontal-social-bar horizontal-social-bar-top clearfix\">\n<div class=\"horizontal-share-left\">A coalition of vulnerable countries is pushing the global community to adopt a new 1.5 degree global warming target at the ongoing climate talks in\u00a0Paris.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The group of countries, known as the Climate Vulnerability Forum, argues current efforts to limit global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius is insufficient to protect many nations from the dangers of climate change. The group came to this conclusion, which was announced on the first day of the climate talks, after two years of expert review and diplomatic\u00a0consultations.<\/p>\n<p>The groups said lives, rights and the prosperity of billions are at stake in the globally agreed temperature\u00a0limit.<\/p>\n<p>The two degree limit has been widely cited since the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/121702780\/Responding-to-Climate-Change-Tools-For-Policy-Development-Part-I-of-II\" target=\"_blank\">Stockholm Environment Institute released a major study<\/a>\u00a0on dangerous climate change in 1990. The limit did not become a formal target of global climate negotiations until 2010 with the signing of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cancun.unfccc.int\/cancun-agreements\/significance-of-the-key-agreements-reached-at-cancun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cancun Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>For a more detailed backgrounder on the two degree target, read Carbon Brief\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/two-degrees-the-history-of-climate-changes-speed-limit\" target=\"_blank\">Two Degrees: The History of Climate Change\u2019s Speed Limit<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thoriq Ibrahim, Maldives minister of environment and energy,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aosis.org\/2015-opportunity-to-tackle-climate-change-may-never-come-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0the danger of exceeding a 1.5 degrees target is \u201cespecially acute for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aosis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alliance of Small Island States<\/a>\u00a0(<span class=\"caps\">AOSIS<\/span>), a group of 44 low-lying island and coastal states from around the\u00a0world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"caps\">AOSIS<\/span>\u00a0is of the view that the Paris agreement must be an ambitious, legally binding protocol capable of limiting warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius,\u201d he said, adding \u201cimmediate action is required before the treaty goes into effect in 2020 if we are to keep the window to 1.5 degrees\u00a0open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently Cyclone Pam and Typhoon Maysak destroyed homes and killed dozens of people in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and in Micronesia, Ibrahim\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Leaders Fight for New 1.5 Degrees Warming Target at COP21 Climate Talks A coalition of vulnerable countries is pushing the global community to adopt a new 1.5 degree global warming target at the ongoing climate talks in\u00a0Paris. The group of countries, known as the Climate Vulnerability Forum, argues current efforts to limit global temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,10451,5317,2510,9056],"class_list":["post-14950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-cop21","tag-desmog-blog","tag-paris","tag-paris-climate-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14951,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions\/14951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}