Global warming is now set to breach the 1.5C target limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, after decades of insufficient climate action, the United Nations Environment Programme has warned. Temperatures could still be reduced, but only with far larger emissions cuts and the removal of vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using methods the UN says are "costly and risky".
The chances of keeping average warming to 1.5C have effectively vanished – at least temporarily – the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in its annual Emissions Gap Report published on Wednesday.
