• Coal-to-liquids plant in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on March 21. If no additional efforts are made beyond the pledges submitted under the Paris Agreement, the Earth's surface will warm to a catastrophic 2.8 C, the IPCC has said. | BLOOMBERG
    Coal-to-liquids plant in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on March 21. If no additional efforts are made beyond the pledges submitted under the Paris Agreement, the Earth's surface will warm to a catastrophic 2.8 C, the IPCC has said. | BLOOMBERG

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Paris – If all nations honor promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there is a chance of capping the rise in global temperatures to under 2 degrees Celsius, the cornerstone target of the Paris Agreement, researchers said Wednesday.

But that is a very big “if,” they acknowledge in a peer-reviewed study, published in Nature.

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