So how do we stand globally?
It will take just six years of current emissions to exhaust a carbon budget that would give a good chance of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The IPCC lays out clear choices for policymakers to ponder during the next year of climate negotiations — which are supposed to culminate with a new global climate agreement in Paris next year.
In 2013, fossil fuels provided 87% of the world’s energy — that hasn’t changed since 1999.