UN: World to Surpass 1.5-Degree Climate Goal 'In Next Few Years'

Summary

The United Nations has warned that the world is set to surpass the 1.5-degree Celsius climate goal within the next few years, acknowledging that preventing some of global warming's worst harms is no longer possible. A new report from the UN Environment Programme suggests that while the world will likely overshoot this threshold, efforts should focus on limiting the peak temperature and then bringing it back down, ideally by the end of the century.