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Global warming will inevitably overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C target, UN report says
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Global warming will inevitably overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C target, UN report says

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  • A new United Nations Environment Programme report says warming beyond 1.5C is now inevitable.
  • The report urges countries to limit the overshoot as much as possible before reversing it.
  • A researcher says the immediate priority is accelerating cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Global warming will inevitably pass the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C threshold, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme report.

The report, titled “Limiting Overshoot,” calls for the world to keep the exceedance of the target as small as possible before bringing temperatures back down.

It is the first UN-level report to acknowledge that keeping warming below 1.5C is no longer possible. A researcher described the “immediate task” as accelerating cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions.

immediate task

— ResearcherThe researcher identified accelerating greenhouse-gas emissions cuts as the immediate priority.
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