Temperatures to rise far beyond Paris target, study shows
Overshoot by end of century could be less severe than expected thanks to efforts by some countries to combat climate change
Katowice, Poland Average world temperatures are on course to far exceed the main goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting global warming, a study shows. But the overshoot by the end of this century could be less severe than expected thanks to significant efforts by some countries to combat climate change, reads the report by Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of three independent European research groups. The Paris Agreement aims to restrict warming to “well below” 2°Cabove pre-industrial times. Countries are meeting in Poland from December 2 to 14 to agree on guidelines for implementing the pact that comes into force in 2020, but there are concerns that these will be too weak to limit temperature rise to within safe levels. The CAT report read there has been progress since 2015, but current policies mean the world is heading for warming of 3.3°C. That compared with the 3.4°C it predicted a year ago, and it said that if governments were to implement policies they had...
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