UN: 1.5°C limit likely breached, with overshoot-and-cool plan
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The United Nations Environment Programme warns that the world will exceed the 1.5°C limit in the coming years due to fossil-fuel emissions, but outlines a strategy of overshoot followed by cooling using carbon removal and other measures, while pushing for stronger adaptation as current policies project warming around 2.6°C by 2100 and escalating climate impacts.
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- Global temperature rises to exceed 1.5 Celsius 'within a few years', UNEP says Reuters
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- The world is on track to overshoot 1.5°C – but there’s a pathway out Euronews.com
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