What’s our current trajectory?

If we carry on as we are, burning fossil fuels and increasing deforestation, how much higher are we expecting the global temperature to rise?

The image below is taken from “Warming Stripes” and gives a graphical representation of how the world is warming. At the bottom is our current path, with emissions carrying on as they are we could hit 4.8°C by the end of the century, before eventually hitting +7.8°C by the year 2200. The sea level rise caused by 4°of warming alone will make approximately half a billion people homeless.

We need to be moving towards the top trajectory, which means a significant increase in climate action.