In the next 5-10 years, it’s ‘inevitable’ the planet will breach 1.5°C of global warming on a more permanent basis, after it touched the boundary for the first time in 2024, says Johan Rockström, Director of PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The situation is urgent - but far from hopeless. With the world’s leaders set to assemble at the #COP30 climate conference from 10-21 November, Rockström names 3 priorities to help minimize the overshoot and get the planet back to 1.5°C by t

Leaders discussed the most pressing climate issues—and reasons for hope—ahead of the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Creating Climate Action in Rio. Global leaders will be gathering this month in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the United Nations climate summit. Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, president of Suriname, was candid about the lack of global progress on limiting warming to the targets laid out in the Paris Agreement. “It looks like we will not be able to achieve the 1.5 degrees, so we have actually