UN finally admits global warming will shoot past 1.5 ºC climate limit Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says. By James Dinneen

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02753-5?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=9803e5de03-nature-briefing-daily-20260902&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50432164 The United Nations Environment Programme has released a report acknowledging that the world will fail to meet the Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 ℃ above the preindustrial average, with warming of at least 1.8 ℃ expected this century. “All of our pathways forward are overshoot pathways,” said climate scientist and co-author Debra Roberts. However, the report suggests that, with a huge expansion of CO2 removal efforts, it might still be possible to return to below 1.5 ℃ by the end of the century. And every fraction of a degree counts. “The lower the peak warming reached, the lower the risks,” says the report.