Writing in The Conversation, Professor Paul Dodds (UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources) argues that we should aim to minimise global warming as much as possible, rather than focus on a particular target. Earth’s surface temperature has been 1.5°C hotter than the pre-industrial average for 21 of the last 22 months . The 2015 Paris agreement committed countries to keeping the global temperature increase “well below 2°C”, which is widely interpreted as an average of 1.5°C over a 30-