Understanding 1.5

Willingly, we let certain countries in our common world go extinct. How can we? 

In this article, you will find a portrait of the hailed but inefficient 1.5°C target from Paris, interviews with its most eager proponents, and a commentary on the shift in global climate governance from science to politics.

The 1.5°C target's rise to fame is built on years of careful groundwork by people who share a profound precarity to the adverse effects of climate change.

This story is their – soon to be our – story.