An oil refinery in Houston, Texas, that was shut down last year. Brandon Bell / Getty Images

Current climate policies put the world on a course for 2.8 degrees C of warming this century, a gross breach of international climate targets, according to a new U.N. report.

Under the Paris Agreement, nations set a goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C. But according to the latest U.N. “Emissions Gap Report,” the world is rapidly blowing past that threshold.

Average global temperatures over the past three years were more than 1.5 degrees C warmer than the preindustrial era, and there is evidence that warming is accelerating . While the planet has not officially surpassed the Paris goal, which will be judged by the average temperature over 20 years, overshoot is imminent.…