Days apart, one Australian minister called for reduced dependence on fossil fuels, while another literally turned the tap on new fossil gas supply, as a UN report warns we’ll overshoot 1.5 degrees.

If global warming remains above 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new U.N. report says “there are no good outcomes.”

Due to a collective failure of governments to abandon fossil fuels the most hopeful climate outcome is for warming to reach 1.8 degrees later this century, according to a new UN…