World set to breach 1.5°C warming limit set by Paris Climate Agreement

Home Environment To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Firefighters battle a forest fire near Blagon during wildfires in southwestern France, July 29, 2026 AP Photo/Emma Da Silva - Emma Da Silva 01:43 Issued on: 21/10/2026 - 17:56 The UN is warning that global commitments to cut planet-heating emissions are falling far short of the Paris climate goals of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming – and put the world on course for 2.6C warming this century. The report by the United Nations Environment Programme lays bare the chasm between rhetoric and action when it comes to tackling global warming, and the challenge before political leaders at November's COP31 climate summit - set to take place next month in Turkey. Story by Emerald Maxwell. Keywords for this article