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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

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Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord, according to a bleak first-of-its-kind report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme…

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