Fossil fuel rise drives planet closer to critical climate safety limit

Current trajectories show there's a 50 percent chance that 1.5C will be breached by the end of the decade because fossil fuel use has not yet peaked. AP - Wade Payne

The world is on track to deplete its remaining carbon budget within six years, pushing global temperatures beyond the 1.5C threshold, a major international study has found.

The latest annual update by the Global Carbon Budget, which tracks where carbon emissions end up in the Earth's system, found that time is running out to prevent dangerous temperature rises.