This news feature article in Nature this week concludes something that’s been clear for a while now — the IPCC is not even considering any plan of action that can keep global warming down to 2 degrees Celsius.
While its clear that 2 degrees increase over the 20th century average is inadequate to mitigate what will effectively be permanent and grave damage, it is now equally clear that the world’s leaders won’t consider any plan of action which keeps the earth below 2 degrees. In fact, it seems that they will not even commit to any binding agreement whatever to take any actions, instead making non-binding commitments.
