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.
nature.com
· 2026-11-09
The United Nations Environmental Programme has for the first time acknowledged that the 2015 Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels can no longer be met. UNEP's new framework instead focuses on minimizing both the duration and magnitude of overshoot past that threshold, requiring steep near-term emissions cuts alongside large-scale removal of hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere before 2100.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-22
The UN Environment Program's new Limiting Overshoot report acknowledges that global temperatures will rise past the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C threshold, and instead focuses on how to minimize the severity and duration of that overshoot. The plan calls for nations to simultaneously cut greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero and deploy large-scale carbon dioxide removal, treating the latter as a supplement rather than a substitute for emissions cuts.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-02
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