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Emissions must peak before 2025 for 'liveable future', UN report says

Climate change has accelerated natural phenomena such as the melting of glaciers, including this body of ice on the edge of Campos de Hielo Norte, in the region of Aysen, southern Chile. Photo taken on February 14, 2022. © Pablo Cozzaglio, AFP

Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon pollution, UN climate experts warned Monday, with any delay to peak greenhouse gas emissions likely to result in smashing through warming targets.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said emissions have to peak before 2025 and drop sharply to keep even the more conservative Paris treaty warming goal of two degrees Celsius in play.

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