# 1.5C > And this is within the supposedly ‘safe limit’ of warming: less than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Without immediate emissions cuts, average global temperatures are on course to rise by nearly double that, unleashing chaos. > > – [What can I do about climate change? 14 ways to take positive action - Positiv…](https://www.positive.news/environment/what-can-i-do-about-climate-change-how-to-lower-your-carbon-footprint/) > The 1.5C target, beyond which the most disastrous climate impacts lie, is not yet physically impossible to meet. To achieve that, global carbon emissions must be reduced by 50% by 2030, yet record levels of pollution are still being pumped into the atmosphere. > > – [The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27 – but hope must not | Cop27 | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/cop27-summit-climate-crisis-global-heating-fossil-fuel-industry) > Does that mean giving up? Absolutely not. The 1.5C target is not a threshold beyond which hope also dies. Every fraction of a degree means an increase in human suffering and must therefore be fought for. How? With everything we have, to tear down the barrier between us and climate stability: the fossil fuel industry. > > – [The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27 – but hope must not | Cop27 | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/cop27-summit-climate-crisis-global-heating-fossil-fuel-industry)