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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 pre-industrial levels, urgent and steep cuts to emissions can help reduce the overshoot.
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A United Nations Emissions Gap Report 2026, titled “The Point of Return,” released on Wednesday, warns that global temperatures are on track to surpass the 1.5 °C increase above pre‑industrial levels. The report stresses that only urgent, steep reductions in greenhouse‑gas emissions can limit the duration of the overshoot. It calls for immediate action to keep the excess warming brief.
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