UN body founded in 1972 and based in Nairobi that coordinates global environmental policy and publishes assessments like the Emissions Gap Report.
Nature argues that the 30x30 habitat target and the $30 billion conservation pledge are off course as COP17 opens on 19 October. The habitat half is less settled than the money, because a 14 October study suggests official figures may undercount protected land.
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Copernicus put August 2026 at 16.96C, a hundredth of a degree above July 2023 and inside its own uncertainty, so it calls the month a tie. The clustering of the record months is the firmer finding.
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UNEP now accepts the overshoot and describes a way back to 1.5C by 2100 that needs global emissions halved by 2035 and then removal running at a scale one outside researcher puts at 100,000 times today's.
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Both reports released this month treat passing 1.5°C as the working assumption, and the account of them from one of the Canadian authors gives the 5°C national figure without naming an emissions scenario or a range.
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The headline ratio in UNEP's Hidden Assets assessment leans mostly on the monetised value of lives not cut short. Strip that out and the same 25 measures still return about four dollars per dollar, which is the figure a treasury can bank.
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The UN's first overshoot report puts warming at 1.4C now, 1.8C at the optimistic peak and 2.6C on current policy, which turns the climate trade from preventing a breach into paying for the return trip.
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