Climate Home: The UN`s climate science panel faces a tight deadline to drum up research on a 1.5C global warming limit.
Adopted as an aspirational goal at last December`s Paris summit, the 1.5C threshold is seen as critical to protect vulnerable communities. But most available analysis focuses on the longer standing 2C target.
Accordingly, in the small print of the deal was a request to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for a special report on 1.5C, by 2018.
That effectively gives researchers...