We go through monday and tuesday, but here it is. This High Pressure is set to build through the middle part of the week. We havent had High Pressure with us for quite some time, and that should allow a bit more in the way of dry settled and some sunshine to look forward to. Thanks. And thats bbc news at ten. As new figures emerge about the temperature of the oceans, and whether this countrys infrastructure is up to it, well pull apart our Climate Targets and how we might meet them. The chair of the worlds top body on the science the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is with us in the studio. Why afghan migrants trying to find homes in this country find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. Were joined by an afghan refugee facing homelessness in southend and the chair of the local government association. Things have changed. And as disney phases out dvds in australia, are Physical Media doomed as people switch to streaming, or do Vinyl Records show us the dangers o
rise meant lower risk, activists could use that to try and press them into action. but while 1.5 stuck in people s minds, the science doesn t come with hard limits. it works on probability and risk. you can see that here, risks become higher, or darker, as temperature rises increase, but it s a continuum. 1.6 is more risky than 1.5, less risky than 1.7. every fraction of a degree makes a difference to the chance of negative events. this week, the new chair of the ipcc, jim skea, told german newspapers, the world won t end at 1.5 degrees warming. in doing so, he wasn t saying anything unscientific. he added a 1.5 degree world would be more dangerous, and every action taken to mitigate risks would help. but the comments were interpreted by some as a blunt message for environmental campaigners, by others as underplaying the risks to vulnerable communities. attempts to hit the global 1.5 target are a delicate balance. as our efforts to communicate the climate. let s talk now tojim skea,
there s very little room to miss these deadlines. victoria gill, bbc news, glasgow. mr sunak will outline the initiative this morning alongside the former bank of england governor, mark carney. he says participating firms will have to be completely transparent about how they re improving their environmental credentials. he s been speaking to my colleague christian fraser. what we are increasingly going to see, though, as government policy toughens up, is clearerfills in, like different words for the same thing, about what s needed to get us to 1.5 degrees, these companies are going to have to notjust say theoretically this is what s going to happen but actually i do have to write off some of those. we saw a tiny bit of that earlier last year, about a year ago, with some of the major oil companies who wrote off some of those excess reserves thatjust don t make sense in a 1.5 degree world but it s a drop in the bucket thus far. one of the problems at the moment is what we call carbon lea
toughens up, fills in, about what is needed to get us to 1.5 degrees is companies will have to say notjust degrees is companies will have to say not just theoretically this is what is going to happen, but actually they will have to write off some of those. we saw a tiny bit of that earlier last year, about a year ago, with some of the oil companies who wrote off some of those access reserves that just don t make sense in a 1 .5 degree world. but it s a drop in the bucket, so far.- in the bucket, so far. one of the problems in the bucket, so far. one of the problems at in the bucket, so far. one of the problems at the - in the bucket, so far. one of| the problems at the moment in the bucket, so far. one of i the problems at the moment is what we call carbon leakage. so you get a territory like the eu that puts up the price of carbon, carbon taxes, it becomes more expensive for companies and companies relocate to another part of the world where it is cheaper. do you think there needs
been encouraging activities in the amazon rainforest which have led to deforestation like clearing land for cattle rearing and mining since jair bolsonaro was signed in. there are some questions from environmentalists about the possible impact of this. the countries making the deal account for 85% of the world s forests. it is important to remember that experts are giving this a cautious welcome. tanya steele is chief executive of the world wildlife fund in the uk. i mean, this is a hugely ambitious pledge from world leaders because of the sheer scale of it. we have destroyed over 50% of land based ecosystems, and this announcement, it s notjust about protecting forests to keep them standing, it s actually about starting to restore and put so much of our wild landscapes back. there is no path to a 1.5 degree world that doesn t rely on us keeping our forests standing and actually starting the process, the hard task, of restoring so much