UN sees higher global warming, even in best-case scenario
UNEP says even the best-case path needs urgent emissions cuts as current policies still point to 2.8 C warming by 2100.
- On Wednesday, the United Nations Environment Programme released its annual Emissions Gap Report 2026, finding that exceeding the Paris Climate Agreement's 1.5-degree Celsius warming target is now "imminent and unavoidable."
- Current government policies track toward about 2.8 degrees Celsius warming, with projections deteriorating since last year partly because of the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
- Global greenhouse gas emissions must fall 18% by 2030, 45% by 2035, and 69% by 2040 to keep warming to the lowest achievable overshoot, while coal-fired electricity generation requires a 75% reduction by 2035.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres characterized the findings as a "leadership gap," asserting that "overshoot is not surrender" while urging nations to urgently implement fast, deep emissions reductions.
- With COP31 approaching next month in Antalya, Turkey, delegates face findings that returning temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius depends on large-scale carbon removal, the feasibility of which remains uncertain.
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(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Ji-heon = As it became impossible to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius or less compared to before industrialization, it is now impossible to achieve...
The new report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) admits that global warming will exceed 1.5 °C, but argues that rapid emission cuts can still limit excess and bring the temperature back to that value by 2100. UNEP released, this Wednesday, the report "Emissions Gap Report 2026: The [...]
The limit of 1.5 degrees of warming agreed upon in Paris is out of sight. To achieve the ‘second-best’ scenario of a maximum of 1.7 to 1.8 degrees of warming by 2050, drastically more climate measures must be taken.
The UN Environment Programme report paints a gloomier picture of global warming than before.
According to the UN report, the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement can no longer be met, but a more favourable scenario is still possible, provided emissions are reduced drastically and immediately. - According to the UN, the world is moving towards a 2.6°C warming but must not "let down" (Environment).
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