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Climate scientists now aim to minimize time spent above the limit from the Paris Agreement. Gary Hershorn/Getty Images The United Nations Environment Program has released a report with grim news about the planet's rising temperatures. The group's climate scientists have determined that global temperatures will rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Rather than outlining how to remain below that increase, the new Limiting Overshoot report lays out paths toward minimizing the amount of time the planet spends above that critical temperature.

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