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Planet racing toward ‘dead-end 3C temperature rise’, UN chief warns | Climate News<\/h2>\n

Planet racing toward ‘dead-end 3C temperature rise’, UN chief warns | Climate News<\/p>\n

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Plans to stop emitting greenhouse gases in order to limit global warming are nowhere near enough to avert dangerous climate change, a United Nations body has warned.<\/p>\n

In its annual Emissions Gap report, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says the climate action plans of governments around the world will fail to limit the global temperature to under 1.5-2C this century.<\/p>\n

That limit was the goal of the landmark Paris Agreement, struck in 2015, when almost 200 countries agreed limiting global warming was necessary to avoid extremely destructive impacts.<\/p>\n

Current pledges put the world on track for a 2.5-2.9C of global warming, UNEP said.<\/p>\n

Its executive director Inger Andersen told Sky News: “None of these scenarios are acceptable to many, many people who live in low-lying areas, in coastal communities in fire hazard areas or in drought prone areas or flood prone areas.<\/p>\n

“So we really do need to step up.”<\/p>\n

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At 3C of warming, scientists predict the world could pass several catastrophic points of no return, from the runaway melting of ice sheets to the Amazon rainforest drying out.<\/p>\n

“Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3C temperature rise,” said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres.<\/p>\n

“The emissions gap is more like an emissions canyon.”<\/p>\n

In order to keep warming to 1.5C or 2C, emissions must fall by 28-42% by 2030, the UNEP report said, in a year expected to be the hottest in more than 100,000 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It added that “relentless” efforts to stop emissions – which primarily come from burning fossil fuels – are “essential” to narrow that emissions gap.<\/p>\n

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