The world is on course to breach the international commitment to limit global warming as laid out in the Paris climate agreement, according to the United Nations.
In a new report Wednesday, the U.N. Environment Programme concluded that it is inevitable that global temperatures will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the target set in the 2015 agreement. Climate experts say crossing that mark would increase risks for extreme weather events caused by climate change.
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