World will overshoot 1.5C climate goal, UN report says

The United Nations' COP30 climate summit in Brazil will focus on financing of action. Photo: AP PHOTO

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations' Environment Programme says.

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The annual Emissions Gap report said because of countries' slow action to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions, it was now clear that the world would exceed the core target of the 2015 Paris Agreement - at least temporarily.

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