Nations grapple with loss of 1.5°C target at UN climate summit

Antalya For a decade, the 1.5C goal has served as the north star of climate action, a line nations pledged to hold to avoid the worst ravages of a warming planet. Some countries have resisted 1.5°C goal in COP-27 text, U.S. says storyline 1 But at this year’s global climate conference — the first since the United Nations said the 1.5°C threshold would be missed — nations appear unsure how to take the news.

COP31 opens as climate and geopolitical pressures mount storyline 1 The world has already warmed about 1.4°C above pre-industrial times and the UN declared in September that crossing 1.5°C — the most ambitious target threshold of the Paris accord — was imminent and unavoidable. Explained | Why are talks on 1.5°C at a cliff edge at COP27? storyline 1 Explained | Why are talks on 1.5°C at a cliff edge at COP27?

storyline 1 Yet in Turkiye, where the COP31 negotiations are at the midway point, some nations are clinging to the goal, particularly those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.