NAVIGATING A WORLD BEYOND 1.5°C
The world missed its goal for tackling climate change.
What happens next?
This is a story about a storm…
In 2015, the world agreed to limit global heating to 1.5°C. Like a ship facing a storm, it had to change course. And since then, remarkable progress has been made. The course is shifting.
But it’s not been enough. Ten years later, global heating is overshooting 1.5°C. The world is now in a growing climate storm and heading deeper. It needs a strategy for sailing out…
So, in this four-part documentary series, we explore the huge challenges that come from 1.5°C overshoot. We meet the people with the ideas to navigate what comes next, from protesting pensioners to climate negotiators, Pacific islanders to pre-eminent scientists.
And we uncover the fantasies that brought us to this point. Fantasies that technology can save the world, that the impacts of 1.5°C won’t be that bad, that everyone is ‘doomed’.
When you’re in a storm, fantasies are a dangerous distraction.
Instead, this series seeks to tell a different story, one fit for navigating the overshoot storm.
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“An essential guide to a critical issue. Please tune in.”
GEORGE MONBIOT Journalist and author
“This important series helps us understand what options we actually now have.”
BRIAN ENO Musician, producer, and artist
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Episode 1: Uncharted Territory
We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal - and the sailors who can help set a course for navigating what comes next.
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Episode 2: Carbon Suckers
We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills.
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Episode 3: The Minsky Moment
We meet the pensioner who learned something shocking about what pension funds think climate change will do. It has implications for everyone…
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Episode 4: Derailment
One of Spain’s worst disasters was driven by climate change. But it ended up boosting climate deniers. How do we navigate climate action through climate disasters?
Episode 5: Bonus Episode
Overshoot affects everything - where do we start? This bonus live episode brings together a stellar panel to explore the consequences for geopolitics, the law, and more.
“Candidly addresses one of the most important issues of our time: why we are failing to meet the Paris target.”
SIR BOB WATSON Former Head of the IPCC
“Challenging, provocative, essential…offers a map to chart a course through the storm to a fairer, safer future.”
CAROLINE LUCAS Former MP and author
Bonus content
Credits
Produced by Planet B Productions in partnership with the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative.
Writing + narration: Laurie Laybourn
Research: Ben Shread-Hewitt
Script consulting: Daniel Trilling
Production coordination: Daniel Norman
Sound design/mix: Ben Heyderman and James Fox
Original music: Haniell
Graphic design: Daniel Norman
Review: Aaron Thierry, Henry Throp, James Dyke, Mirte Boot, Stephen Backhouse, Sophia Lennon