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UN report admits global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit and maps an overshoot path back below it
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A United Nations Environment Programme report acknowledges Earth will exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius warming limit within the next few years and proposes an "overshoot" strategy to eventually cool temperatures back below the threshold.
This shifts the global climate strategy from purely preventing the 1.5-degree breach to managing a temporary overshoot and developing carbon removal technologies. Infrastructure planning must now account for decades of increased weather-related disasters and rising seas while pursuing aggressive emissions reductions and carbon dioxide extraction.
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The UN Environment Programme report admits the world will cross the 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold within the next few years.
Current government policies are projected to push temperatures to 2.6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
The new strategy focuses on limiting peak warming and reducing the time spent above 1.5 degrees before cooling back down by the end of the century.
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