UN Report Warns Global Warming Will Exceed 1.5C Target
A new United Nations report indicates that global temperatures will inevitably surpass the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement, likely stabilizing around 1.8°C. The assessment highlights severe climate impacts and underscores the urgent need for accelerated emissions cuts.
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U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5 Degree Climate Target
It proposed a new goal of limiting the “overshoot” of rising temperatures and eventually figuring out how to undo the temperature gains, a highly uncertain path.
By Chico Harlan
Read full article →Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
Human health, water supplies, nature, cities, infrastructure and economies could all be severely damaged by temperature rises Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion. The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme confirm...
By Adam Morton Climate and environment editor
Read full article →Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
World must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say
By Seth Borenstein
Read full article →Global warming will inevitably overshoot 1.5°C Paris Agreement target - UN report
A UN report says the world must keep the 'overshoot' as small as possible to limit irreversible damage.
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