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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jonathan Watts and Wajã Xipai

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

A family wading through sea water flooding a village
A flooded village in the low-lying island nation of Kiribati. The UN secretary general says Indigenous communities must be better represented at Cop climate summits. Photograph: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket/Getty Images

Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.

In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.

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