The UN’s latest warning about the world’s climate goals slipping away is looming over a pending decision on whether a large offshore oil project will go ahead off Newfoundland, promising a much-needed boost for the province’s economy but potentially moving the world further away from avoiding climate disaster.
The report on climate mitigation from the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change says that limiting global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels this century, one of the goalposts of the global Paris agreement signed in 2015, is all but out of reach without massive and immediate emissions cuts, along with technology to
