We're mayor Irfan, your environmental report here at Vox.

I think it's easy to forget these days that the biggest thing that we should be worrying

about at all times is the environment.

Yeah, we all live in it.

And at the top of the week, we got a report that confirms this, yes?

Yeah, the intergovernmental panel on climate change, which is a body convened by the UN,

put out a major report looking at 6,000 different pieces of new research on climate.

So it was a big international collaborative effort looking at what it would take to keep

the world from warming less than 1.5 degrees Celsius on average.

And why 1.5?

Well, you may recall that the Paris Climate Accord set out the goal of limiting global warming

to 2 degrees Celsius or less, but they had a really ambitious goal of trying to keep

it to 1.5 or less.

The idea was that maybe keeping warming at a lower level would have more benefits.

Okay.

So there's certainly one way or the other.

So they commissioned the IPCC to look into it.

And this is the result of that.

What it would take to actually reach this really ambitious goal.

Tell me what the report says.

Well, in short, it says it's going to be really, really hard.

How bad is 1.5 degrees of warming across the planet?

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