The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

By James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet.

Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot”…

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