The writing has been on the wall for at least three years: The Paris Pact’s goal of keeping global temperature rise down to 1.5°C above industrial levels will be unattainable in the near term. The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) “Emissions Gap Report 2026”, released on Wednesday, underlines this. It sets out what it would take to return to the Paris threshold by the end of the century. Under a scenario designed to achieve the lowest possible overshoot, global warming would peak at 1.7-1.8°C around 2050........

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