UN urges action to reverse 1.5°C overshoot

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World must slash emissions to limit irreversible climate damage

The world must rapidly change course as it drifts beyond the global warming limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned in a new report.

The UN and climate scientists have already conceded that the red line agreed in Paris over a decade ago will be crossed. The three-year average last year exceeded the limit agreed in Paris in 2015, many are betting on 2026 being among the hottest years ever, and 2027 looks set to be hotter still.

“We must make the overshoot as small and short as possible,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement ahead of the report’s publication on Wednesday. This means “limiting how high temperatures rise and how long they remain above 1.5°C,” he said.

At a time of growing political resistance to climate action, Guterres called for an “overshoot of ambition” that would include a faster phase-out of fossil fuels and sharp cuts to methane emissions.

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