UN sets steep emission cuts to reverse 1.5C overshoot by end of century

The United Nations has said the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 6% per year to limit global warming enough to be able to return to the 1.5C goal by 2100, as decades of insufficient climate action have now made an overshoot inevitable. 

In a video message accompanying the 2026 Emissions Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the world could no longer avoid overshooting the 1.5C limit and that the consequences were