Harvard University Blog: Reflections on the IPCC special report on pathways to and impacts of 1.5°C
„The main difference to previous reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that this report focuses on the 1.5°C target, while the the Fifth Assessment Report did not pay much attention to it, largely because too few studies even addressed this ambitious scenario. The Paris Agreement and the request to the IPCC for this latest special report have changed this: more and more studies have considered how the goal could be achieved – with similar results, but greater urgency.“