UN climate report says world will fail 1.5-degree Paris goal but argues for keeping overshoot brief

A new United Nations climate report released Wednesday said that while global temperatures are set to exceed 1.5-degree Celsius above preindustrial levels, urgent and steep cuts to emissions can help reduce the overshoot. The Emissions Gap Report 2026: The Point of Return — published by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) — looks at the “lowest possible”…

Read it at The Hill ↗

← Front page