World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target

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Key UN report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity

The world's governments are "nowhere near on track" to meet their commitment to avoid global warming of more than 1.5C above the pre-industrial period, according to an author of a key UN report that will...

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