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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Global temperature rises to exceed 1.5 Celsius ‘within a few years’, UNEP says
SINGAPORE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Global temperature rises are set to exceed the key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) "within a few years", the UN's environmental body said on Wednesday, creating more extreme weather and intensif...
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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone - Regional Media News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger [...]
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