Paris Agreement 1.5°C threshold reached in 2024

The world sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2024 with temperatures exceeding 1.5°C warming above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Today, two new research papers published in Nature Climate Change indicate we have now entered a multi-decadal period of 1.5°C average global warming, leaving the Paris Agreement goals under a cloud of uncertainty. Guest: Dr Andrew King, Associate Professor in Climate Science at the University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Producer: Grace Stranger