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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Seth Borenstein

Climate leaders are talking about 'overshoot' into warming danger zone. Here's what it means

Climate COP30 Emissions Report - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The world's climate leaders are conceding that Earth's warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the planet out of a danger zone. But they're not conceding defeat.

United Nations officials, scientists, and analysts are pinning their hopes on eventually forcing global temperatures back below the red line they set in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which sought to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times.

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