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Evening Standard
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Rebecca Speare-Cole

World on track for 2.8C warming under current policies, says UN

Predicted global temperature rise this century has fallen slightly to 2.8C under current policies, UN experts said as they warned that the world was still heading for a serious escalation in impacts.

In its annual report on the gap between the emissions cuts needed to limit dangerous global warming to 1.5C and what countries were doing and had pledged to do, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said progress was “nowhere near fast enough”.

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