An article signed by professor Roberto Schaeffer, from Coppe/UFRJ together with 14 scientists, published in Nature , indicates that countries will need to work four times harder – or three times faster – to comply with the Paris Agreement. The document aims to limit global warming to 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. According to the researchers, to achieve this goal, countries will need to cut their annual emissions by a range above 7%, or by about 3%, to limit warming to 2ºC.
“If the international community had taken its commitments made since Paris in 2015 more seriously, the effort today to keep the world on a trajectory compatible with a 1.5ºC world would be much smaller, and probably much more feasible too,” says Schaeffer.
