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UNEP report concedes world will exceed 1.5°C warming limit, shifts to overshoot strategy

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

UNEP report: 1.5°C climate target now unreachable, warming to hit 1.8°C

A new United Nations Environment Programme report finds that current global emissions trends put the planet on track for roughly 1.8°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this century, effectively ending hopes of holding warming to the 1.5°C target set under the Paris Agreement. UNEP's executive director Inger Andersen acknowledged that countries have delayed climate action, failing to cut emissions at the pace scientists said was necessary.

nature.com · 2026-09-02