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Environment
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

'No surrender': UN urges action as 1.5C goal slips away

Urgent action is being called for to cut emissions and bring down global temperatures in the future. (Jason O'BRIEN/AAP PHOTOS)

Global warming is on track to hit 2.8C by the end of the century, the United Nations has warned, fuelling more frequent and intense climate disasters such as heatwaves, bushfires and floods.

But world leaders could limit risks by taking urgent action, researchers say, such as cutting emissions by almost six per cent a year and slashing the use of coal, oil and gas.

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