The world has failed to limit rising temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels – the goal set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the UN secretary general has said.

Speaking ahead of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil , António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target, with “devastating consequences” that include “tipping points” in the Amazon, Greenland, western Antarctica and the coral reefs.

What has happened since Paris?

The Paris climate agreement, signed by almost 200 countries in 2015, is “at the heart of the international commitment to tackle rising global temperatures”, said the BBC .

Signatories committed to “pursue efforts” to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C, and to keep them “well below” 2C above those rec

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