UNEP: The world is on track to surpass 1.5°C of global warming, but we can still limit warming, adapt and return…

• The UNEP report puts the maximum temperature increase in the best possible scenario at 1.8°C; other scenarios suggest more than 2°C.

• Above 1.5°C, risks and impacts will intensify with each additional fraction of a degree and with each year.

• The “overshoot, peak, and decline” trajectory is the best option available to help vulnerable nations and communities cope and get back below 1.5°C.
The increase in global temperature is on track to exceed 1.5 °C, probably in the coming years, which will raise climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous levels (temperature overshoot is the temporary exceeding of a specific level of global warming, in this case 1.5 °C).

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