{"id":31810,"date":"2023-12-11T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/350ppm.co.uk\/?p=31810"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:33:20","slug":"whats-the-big-deal-about-the-earth-getting-hotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/350ppm.co.uk\/blog\/whats-the-big-deal-about-the-earth-getting-hotter\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the big deal about the earth getting hotter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we eagerly await the outcome of COP28 later this week, many will be taking stock of the targets set in the Paris Agreement back in 2015 when 196 parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its overarching goal was to hold \u201cthe increase in the global average temperature to well below 2\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels\u201d and pursue efforts \u201cto limit the temperature increase to 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the explosion of clean energy during the past decade, global warming has cruised through 1.5\u00b0C and looks set to continue increasing, unless there are drastic breakthroughs in the very near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the annual UN Climate Change Conferences serve a critical role on the path towards climate action by setting real, meaningful, legally binding targets, as well as raising awareness on a global scale, it is questionable if everyday people on the ground really understand the urgency of the task ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on more from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/paris-climate-agreement-earth-two-degrees-hotter?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> National Geographic here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we eagerly await the outcome of COP28 later this week, many will be taking stock of the targets set in the Paris Agreement back in 2015 when 196 parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change. 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