Before diving into these uncertainties, it’s important to understand the origins of the overshoot idea. Efforts to meet ambitious temperature targets involve setting small — and constantly decreasing ...

Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping of critical Earth system elements, even if temperatures return to below 1.5 C of global warming after a period of overshoot. A new study ...

Paul Dodds has received funding from the UK government through the Climate Services for a Net Zero World (CS-N0W) programme. While the UK government set the research questions for the study, it was ...

Earth's surface temperature has been 1.5°C hotter than the pre-industrial average for 21 of the last 22 months. The 2015 Paris agreement committed countries to keeping the global temperature increase ...