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The world is not on track in keeping the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.

What impacts will this have and how can the EU prepare itself?

Stay with us to learn more about climate overshoot and adaptation,

one of the 10 issues to watch in

2024 analyzed by the European Parliamentary Research Service.

The last decade was the warmest on record, especially in Europe, where average temperatures

have risen by more than 2 degrees Celsius above

pre-industrial levels.

The Paris Agreement binds us to limit global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees

Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and aims to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But according to the intergovernmental panel on

climate change without drastic cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions, temporary overshoot is almost

inevitable. And the greatest warming is expected in northeastern Europe, northern Scandinavia,

and inland areas of the Mediterranean.

Now, climate overshoot refers to the period during which warming will have increased

past 1.5 degrees Celsius before falling back down thanks to large-scale carbon removals.

And this will lead to more climate variability and extreme weather events.

We are already witnessing the effects of climate change, more severe storms,

shrinking ice sheets and Arctic sea ice, retreating glaciers, warmer oceans, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.

So the longer the climate overshoot lasts, the more dangerous and ocean acidification.

So the longer the climate overshoot lasts, the more dangerous the world will become.

Worsening impacts on human health, food security, water availability, social stability and natural ecosystems.

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