Leaders from across the globe are set to convene in Dubai for the 28th annual U.N. Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28). While each organization and national envoy will bring different perspectives–informed by the political and economic realities they face–there is overwhelming consensus on one point: The time to move from ambition to action is now.
Against the backdrop of one of the hottest years on record, a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, temperatures will reach the threshold which would accelerate the worst effects of global warming in just six years.
