Unofficial Jay Williams

08/10/2024

23/11/2023

On November 17 and 18, the world was, on average, 2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels for the first time in modern recorded history.

The pre-industrial period was a time before widespread fossil fuel use.

Burning fossil fuels has pumped substances like carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, trapping heat at the planet's surface as part of the greenhouse effect.

Current greenhouse gas levels and emissions puts the planet on a trajectory to exceed Paris Agreement targets

The world's governments came up with the Paris Agreement in 2015 to keep global average warming to well below 2C, and ideally lower than 1.5C.

University of NSW Climate Change Research Centre director Katrin Meissner warned that every 10th of a degree of warming would be dangerous.

Last week, the planet appeared to briefly breach a climate threshold set by world governments for the first time. Experts say it is just another sign of how much the planet is warming.

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23/11/2023

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02/10/2023

Jay Williams was a barrister of the NSW Bar Association and practitioner of the High Court of Australia from 2012 until 2022.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Jay practiced as a solicitor of the NSW Supreme Court and holds a Master of Law and Legal Practice, with a major in Human Rights, International Law and the Environment at the University of Technology, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne with a major in Political Science and International Relations. With a primary focus on human rights law, Jay has been involved in several test cases before
the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia, various public policy research projects and has been published by leading peer reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Human Rights. After retiring from the Bar, Jay embarked on the journey to study yoga at the Nepal Yoga Home and is now a qualified teacher. With a love of the arts, song, dance and spoken word, Jay spends most days hiking and meditating in nature.