\u201cCode red for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s how UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres described<\/a> the recent climate projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n It, too, is the prevailing sentiment at the 26th Conference of the Parties or COP26, a summit attended by countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC<\/a>). The UNFCCC signatories agreed to keep temperatures well below 2 (preferably 1.5) degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to secure net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It\u2019s the global community\u2019s accepted threshold and standard to avoid potentially catastrophic changes to our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n