Climate change: what will the next decade bring?

Climate change is a dire threat to countless people. The longer humanity takes to curb emissions, the greater the dangers. Nearly 200 governments signed the landmark Paris agreement of 2015 that promised to limit global warming to between 1.5 and 2°C above pre-industrial levels. But current efforts to reduce carbon emissions are not sufficient to prevent catastrophic warming. Ahead of this November’s COP26 UN climate summit, countries are required to put forward new, more ambitious pledges to cut emissions.