UN charts retreat in fight to limit climate change, but not giving up
A new UN report acknowledges that the world is likely to exceed safe climate thresholds, necessitating a shift in strategy toward active carbon removal. While the outlook is bleak, officials emphasize that aggressive action to reduce fossil fuel use remains essential to limit future disasters.
Why it matters
This report marks a significant shift in international climate policy, moving from pure prevention to a strategy of mitigation and recovery.
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In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change , the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say.
Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas , according to a bleak first-of-its-kind report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme Wednesday.
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