World Is on Track for Up to 2.8 Degrees of Warming Despite Clean Energy Boom

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The UN says the world is on course to exceed the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals, with warming potentially reaching 2.8°C because of decades of inadequate climate action. The article warns that this would intensify risks to ecosystems, human health, economies, and future generations despite growth in clean energy.

The United Nations says that it is now an inevitability that the world will fail to meet the legally binding goals set forth by the Paris climate accord as a result of “decades of insufficient climate action”. The Paris Agreement, ratified in 2015, targeted limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial averages, with a fallback target of 2?, with the understanding that this looser allowance would lead to far more devastating consequences for global ecosystems, human health, the economy, and future generations.…