UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned at a news conference at the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye, that a temporary breach of the 1.5°C warming threshold is now inevitable. He called for emissions to fall by around 6 percent annually and urged developed countries to honour climate finance commitments.
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Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye's southern city of Antalya on Friday, Guterres said
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An overshoot of 1.5 degrees is now inevitable
as small as possible for as short a time as possible
a recipe for catastrophe
Fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis. There is no credible path to a safe climate without moving away from them
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global emissions must fall by around 6 percent annually over the next few years to limit the scale and duration of the overshoot
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current national climate commitments put the world on track for approximately 2.5°C of warming by the end of the century
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