Overshoot: Exploring the Implications of Meeting 1.5°C Climate Goal 'from Above'
The first-ever international conference on the topic of "overshoot" was held in a palace in Laxenburg, Austria, bringing together nearly 200 researchers and legal experts.
The conference discussed future temperature pathways where the Paris Agreement's target to limit global warming to 1.5°C is met "from above, rather than below".
Overshoot pathways are those which exceed the 1.5°C limit – before being brought back down again through techniques that remove carbon from the atmosphere.
- The conference explored the feasibility of overshoot pathways.
- It also examined the legal frameworks that could help deliver them.
- Researchers discussed the potential consequences of a potential rise – and then fall – of global temperatures on climate action, society and the Earth's climate systems.
Author's summary: Exploring overshoot implications for climate goals.