🌿 Environment Oct 21, 2026 · Carbon Brief Staff

UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’

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UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’
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A temporary breach of the 1.5C global-warming limit is now “inevitable” following “decades of insufficient climate action”, says the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).



In its “sobering” annual assessment of the global “emissions gap”, UNEP says that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit is “imminent and unavoidable”.



This year’s report, titled “The point of return”, says the “task now” is to minimise the size and scale of a temperature “

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