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UN's Best Case Now Includes Climate Overshoot
· New York time
The United Nations says avoiding a rise beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius is no longer the expected outcome, Ars Technica reported. Its best-case assessment now includes overshoot to 1.8 degrees Celsius accompanied by massive carbon removal. That is a conditional pathway, not a guarantee that warming stops there or that the required removal will materialize. The scale of the proposed response makes implementation central to the assessment. The global implications extend well beyond a revised target. Climate planning now has to address overshoot as well as reduction. The planet's project schedule has reached the uncomfortable stage where the recovery plan itself needs a very large project plan.
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