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— The just-released Emissions Gap Report, an annual publication by the UN Environment Programme , acknowledges what has been evident for quite some time now — that a breach of 1.5 degree Celsius temperature target set in the Paris Agreement is unavoidable now.

— Global temperatures are almost certain to rise up to at least 1.8 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times, and human efforts would need to be focused to pull it back from there to the 1.5 degree Celsius level sometime in the second half of this century.

— “The task now, therefore, is not only to ensure that global warming stays well below 2 degree Celsius, but to minimize the duration and magnitude of overshoot and establish a credible return path to 1.5 degree…