{"id":117897,"date":"2025-11-04T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:53:09","slug":"world-will-overshoot-1-5-degree-climate-goal-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117897\/","title":{"rendered":"World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sao Paulo, Brazil
\n Reuters
\n \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius<\/a>, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations\u2019 Environment Programme said on Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n The annual Emissions Gap report said because of countries\u2019 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 \u2014 at least temporarily.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis will be difficult to reverse \u2013 requiring faster and bigger additional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to minimize overshoot,\u201d UNEP said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Lead report author Anne Olhoff said deep emissions cuts now could delay when the overshoot happens, \u201cbut we can no longer totally avoid it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The 2015 Paris Agreement commits countries to limit the global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to aim for 1.5 degrees.\n <\/p>\n

\n Yet governments\u2019 latest pledges to cut emissions in future, if met, would see the world face 2.3 to 2.5 degrees Celsius of warming, UNEP said.\n <\/p>\n

\n That\u2019s around 0.3 degrees Celsius less warming than the UN\u2019s projection a year ago \u2014 indicating that new climate pollution-cutting plans announced this year by countries including top CO2 emitter China have failed to substantially close the gap.\n <\/p>\n

\n China pledged in September to cut emissions by 7-10% from their peak by 2035. Analysts<\/a> note the country tends to set modest targets and exceed them.\n <\/p>\n

\n The findings add pressure to the UN\u2019s COP30 climate summit this month, where countries will debate how to kick-start and finance faster action to rein in global warming.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Paris Agreement temperature goals were based on scientific assessments of how each increment of global warming fuels worse heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. For example, 2 degrees of warming would more than double the share of the population exposed to extreme heat, compared with 1.5 degrees . Warming of 1.5 degrees would destroy at least 70% of coral reefs, versus 99% at 2 degrees.\n <\/p>\n

\n Current policies \u2014 the ones countries already have in place \u2014 would lead to even more warming, of around 2.8 degrees, UNEP said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The world has made some progress. A decade ago, when the Paris Agreement was signed, the planet was on course for around a 4 degree temperature rise.\n <\/p>\n

\n But heat-trapping carbon emissions continue to rise, as countries burn coal, oil and gas to power their economies.\n <\/p>\n

\n Global greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.3% in 2024, UNEP said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sao Paulo, Brazil Reuters \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-117897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}