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Bill McGuire

The 1.5C climate target is dead – to prevent total catastrophe, Cop27 must admit it

Activists from the Nuclear for Climate movement at the Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 11 November 2022
Activists from the Nuclear for Climate movement at the Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 11 November 2022. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

In his Cop27 speech this week, our will-he-go, won’t-he-go prime minister said that stopping the planet dangerously overheating was still within our grasp, leaving many wondering just what planet he was on.

According to Rishi Sunak, last year’s Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow was all about keeping alive the possibility of preventing the global average temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution from climbing above 1.5C. That is “alive”, as in connected to a drip, in a coma and suffering cardiac arrest every few hours.

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