We should be an example

Climate alert: Tropical South-East Asia, including Malaysia, is projected to experience impacts such as heavy rains and higher risks of floods and flash-floods, among other impacts, if global warming exceeds 1.5C.

THE Katowice Climate Package – ie, the rule book on climate change that was agreed to earlier this month in Katowice, Poland – is disappointing in that it did not make a strong resounding call for enhanced ambition to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) special report on what will happen when the planet warms to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels has already indicated that climate change impacts are worse at 2°C above preindustrial levels, and that a number of impacts could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C above preindustrial levels.