“Difficult to reverse:” World will overshoot 1.5C climate goal, UN report says

<https://reneweconomy.com.au/difficult-to-reverse-world-will-overshoot-1-5c-climate-goal-un-report-says/>

"The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the
rise in global temperatures to 1.5C, and will likely breach this threshold in
the next decade, the United Nations’ Environment Programme says.

The annual Emissions Gap report said because of countries’ slow action to
reduce planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions, it was now clear that the world
would exceed the core target of the 2015 Paris Agreement – at least
temporarily.

“This will be difficult to reverse – requiring faster and bigger additional
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to minimise overshoot,” UNEP said.

Lead report author Anne Olhoff said deep emissions cuts now could delay when
the overshoot happens “but we can no longer totally avoid it”.

The 2015 Paris Agreement commits countries to limit the global average
temperature rise to 2C above pre-industrial levels, and to aim for 1.5C.

Yet governments’ latest pledges to cut emissions in future, if met, would
result in the world facing 2.3-2.5C of warming, UNEP said."

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