Yes. While we cannot stop global warming overnight, or even over the next several decades, we can slow the rate and limit the amount of global warming by reducing human emissions of heat-trapping gases and soot (“black carbon”).

How can climate change can be controlled?

Responding to climate change involves two possible approaches: reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (“mitigation”) and/or adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline (“adaptation”).

How long do we have to stop climate change?

A new model, based on historical climate data, has projected the Earth's temperature until 2100. Researchers say it can reduce prediction uncertainties by around 50%. They found that we'll likely cross threshold for dangerous warming (+1.5 C) between 2027 and 2042.