'2024 could be the hottest year' climatologist tells ANSA. Giorgi won the Nobel for peace in 2007 along with other members of the UNIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) He said it was "unrealistic" to limit global warming within the 1.5 degree threshold as called for by the Paris Agreement, saying the threshold should be lower.
"Climate change involves water, loss of biodiversity, it involves problems in agriculture, in coastal areas, I don't know if we are equipped, even culturally, to deal with it", he added.