# Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, with ‘no good outcomes’

https://mins.news/en/item/41384

- The Guardian, 2026-09-02 04:00 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/global-heating-warming-1-8c-best-case-scenario-un-united-nations-environment-programme-report

> A UN Environment Programme report says global heating will reach at least 1.8C even under the most optimistic scenario, making the Paris agreement’s 1.5C goal unavoidable to overshoot. Every additional fraction of warming would intensify extreme weather, glacier loss, ecosystem damage and coastal flooding. Scientists say rapid emissions cuts and carbon removal could still return temperatures to 1.5C this century.

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