Above-1.5 C rise unavoidable amid insufficient climate action: U.N. report

It is imminent and unavoidable that the rise in global temperatures above preindustrial levels will exceed 1.5 C due to decades of insufficient climate action, a U.N. Environment Program report said Wednesday, calling for urgent emissions cuts to minimize the magnitude and duration of overshoot.To achieve the "lowest possible" temperature overshoot scenario with a peak rise of 1.7-1.8 C before returning to or below 1.5 C by 2100, UNEP said that global greenhouse gas emissions would have to be reduced by 18 percent from the 2025 level by 2030, 45 percent by 2035 and 69 percent by 2040.While …READ FULL ARTICLE