Fiji, Nov. 11 -- The Marshall Islands has warned that exceeding the 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit, even temporarily, would put vulnerable communities at greater risk and increase the pressure on countries already facing severe climate impacts.
Marshall Islands Minister in-Assistance to the President and Environment, Jess Gasper Jr told a High Ambition Coalition press conference at COP31 that the 1.5-degree target was not simply a scientific benchmark but a matter of people's lives, communities and survival.
Minister Gasper said the Marshall Islands was already experiencing the consequences of climate change and warned that a temporary overshoot of the 1.5-degree threshold would bring further dangers.
He called on countries to f...