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The United Nations on Tuesday said the world has failed to meet its climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius and will likely exceed this threshold in the next decade.
According to the annual Emissions Gap report by the United Nations’ Environment Programme (UNEP), the countries’ slow action to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions will lead to to the world exceeding the core target of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
“This will be difficult to reverse – requiring faster and bigger additional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to minimise overshoot," UNEP said.
Reuters quoted lead report author Anne Olhoff as saying that deep emissions cuts now could delay when the overshoot happens, “but we can no longer tota
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