Under current policies, average global warming is expected to reach 2.8°C by the end of the century, well above the targets of the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday 27 October in the 2022 edition of its report on the gap between the needs and prospects for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Published a few days before the start of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), this report is once again sounding the alarm.