It’s no longer possible to keep global warming below 1.5°C – but there is a pathway out, according to a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report.
“Overshoot, peak and decline” is now our best bet at dipping back below the warming threshold set in the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change, it says.
The report projects a best-case 1.8°C of warming and over 2°C in other scenarios. "Every fraction of a degree will cost lives, destroy livelihoods, deepen inequality, and push ecosystems closer to irreversible damage," says UN Secretary-General Antőnio Guterres
Securing humanity’s future will require making this overshoot as “small and short as possible”, says Guterres.
Renewables are a key part of the puzzle.
