Alan Kohler: It’s national suicide by politics, it’s death by degrees

Replacing the GDP gap left by fossil fuels won’t be achieved by the repetition of a slogan, writes Alan Kohler. Photo: TND/Getty

Far from implementing the vision of COP26 in Glasgow, as intended, COP27 in Egypt signed the death warrant for 1.5°C.

That number was the ambition of COP21 in Paris: Keeping warming to 2°C above pre-industrial age global mean temperatures, and preferably 1.5°C.