Palau president Surangel Whipps Jr warned world leaders in Antalya that breaching 1.5°C threatened his island nation’s food security, economy and sovereignty. (EPA Images pic)ANTALYA: For a decade, the 1.5C goal has served as the north star of climate action, a line nations pledged to hold to avoid the worst ravages of a warming planet.
But at this year's global climate conference -- the first since the United Nations (UN) said the 1.5C threshold would be missed -- nations appear unsure how to take the news.
The world has already warmed about 1.4C above pre-industrial times and the UN declared in September that crossing 1.5C -- the most ambitious target threshold of the Paris accord -- was imminent and unavoidable.
