Limiting Overshoot: Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return

This comprehensive, first-of-its-kind report from UNEP can help you to understand the dire implications of 1.5°C overshoot. For the first time, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the greatest harms of climate change, and warns of tipping points with irreversible and cascading effects as well as increasingly uninsurable and uninhabitable regions. The report emphasises the priority of keeping the exceedance and peak in warming as short-lived and as low as possible, while working toward bringing temperatures back down thereafter.

To meet this challenge, the report explores the risks and impacts associated with higher levels of warming; the mitigation pathways required to limit peak warming and enable temperature decline; and how adaptation and development approaches must respond to changing conditions. This resource will be especially beneficial for sustainability, strategy, and risk professionals, as well as senior leaders.