The United Nations said Wednesday the 1.5C target would be missed and outlined how global temperatures might be brought back down in a first-of-its-kind assessment met with dismay in climate-vulnernable nations. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres last year acknowledged the inevitability of overshooting 1.5C in the next few years but this assessment is the first by a UN agency to unambiguously state the target would be breached.

Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says.

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

A United Nations report details managing global temperatures after exceeding the 1.5C target. Scientists agree warming above this level poses grave risks to the planet. The…