The world is on track for a “catastrophic” 3.1 degrees Celsius (5.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming over preindustrial levels, according to the United Nations.
The international organization said that a previous goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) – a threshold set at the 2015 Paris Agreement – will “soon be dead” without an unprecedented global mobilization to limit climate change.
