00:00The United Nations is warning that the world could breach the critical 1.5-degree Celsius warming limit within the
00:06next few years.
00:07A new UNEP report says rising temperatures are already driving more extreme heat waves, deadly flooding, and ecosystem damage.
00:15UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says every fraction of additional warming could cost lives, destroy livelihoods, and deepen inequality.
00:24But the report says the situation can still be changed.
00:28Governments are urged to rapidly phase out fossil fuels, expand renewable energy, and cut methane pollution.
00:35Protecting forests, oceans, and other natural systems is also essential.
00:40The UN says keeping any 1.5-degree overshoot, as small and short as possible, remains possible.
00:46But scientists and officials warn that faster global climate action is needed now.
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