GoKawiilCOP31 opens in Antalya as UN confirms 1.5°C warming target will be breached
The COP31 UN climate conference began in Antalya, Turkey, for 12 days of talks, marking the first such summit since UN scientists confirmed that global warming will exceed the 1.5°C threshold set by the 2015 Paris agreement under all plausible emissions scenarios. The UN Environment Programme's recent Limiting Overshoot report said returning temperatures below 1.5°C this century will require near-zero emissions plus removal of hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2 via technology or nature-based methods like reforestation.