Global Warming Will Exceed Limit, UN Says in a Report that Maps Path to Get Back Below Danger Zone
- On Wednesday, The United Nations Environment Programme issued a report titled Limiting Overshoot, warning that the world will breach the 1.5-degree climate threshold within the next few years and urging governments to accelerate emission cuts and carbon removal.
- Earth is currently 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, while current policies project temperatures reaching 2.6 degrees by 2100; the United Nations report advises policymakers to prepare for and navigate a future that corrects course.
- Climate scientist Andrew Weaver from the University of Victoria noted the 1.5 limit is not "some magical climate cliff," explaining that global temperatures will follow a hump-shaped path of more warming before cooling by century's end.
- Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change director Vishal Prasad said, "We know what 1.5 , and what anything beyond it, means for our future, our families, our culture and our environment," warning of threats to island communities.
- Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded an "overshoot of ambition," urging nations to accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels; every five years of delay adds a tenth of a degree to peak warming, according to Imperial College London climate scientist Joeri Rogelj.
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The rapidly rising global warming is becoming more and more worrying. According to a report, the Earth is currently on a path that would lead to about 2.6 degrees of temperature rise.
The world is approaching a time when the global average temperature will exceed 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels, warns UNEP. Even a temporary exceedance could intensify extreme phenomena and cause hard-to-recover losses.
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