The UN's 1.5°C special climate report at a glance
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report today on the impacts of global warming of 1.5? above pre-industrial levels.
The report outlines the considerable challenges of meeting the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5℃, the global effort needed to achieve the target, and the consequences of not.
The highlights of the report are presented below:
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