At the most recent COP talks – in particular Paris 2015 – commitments were made by all countries to limit temperature increases to 2C temperature rise, with 1.5C seen as the best chance to avert a human crisis. Well, we passed 1C in 2015. Yale academic, William Nordhaus, who has explored the implications of climate change since the early 1990s argues that the 2C warming limit is not feasible. Britain’s Met Office said global temperatures could break through the internationally agreed upper 1.5C limit before 2023. A UN report says the national pledges made in the Paris Agreement in 2015 will deliver only a third of the reduction in emissions needed by 2030 to meet the climate targets which governments agreed.
Earth Overshoot Day – August 1. Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days. As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at which consumption exceeds the capacity of nature to regenerate – has moved forward two days to 1 August, the earliest date ever recorded. To maintain our current appetite for resources, we would need the equivalent of 1.7 Earths, according to Global Footprint Network, an international research organisation that makes an annual assessment of how far humankind is falling into ecological debt – 
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