United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius and warned that it must change course immediately, The Guardian reported.

In an interview to the British newspaper and Amazon-based news outlet Sumaúma ahead of next month’s COP30 conference, Guterres said that it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which will have “devastating consequences” for the world.

Under the 2015 agreement , countries had agreed to keep the long-term global average surface temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the 21st century.

A warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsi

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