Global body to consider controversial climate change measures that others avoid

The Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot is to consider all potential responses, including ones considered too controversial to broach, that could minimize global warming damage and suffering to people and the planet

By surpassing 1.5°C, but then taking measures to bring temperatures back below that threshold by the end of the century, we will be in what the IPCC calls an “overshoot” scenario.

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed what many had feared but were reluctant to admit: the continued failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions means that global warming will likely exceed 1.5°C relative to pre-industrial levels. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that this key goal of the 2015 Paris climate agreement is now on “life support".