New and updated climate commitments from governments still fall short of the effort needed to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the United Nations Environment Program said in a report Oct. 26. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Current commitments by countries leave the world on track for a temperature rise of at least 2.7 degrees Celsius this century — well above a global goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. “Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is a now problem,” said UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen. “To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 C, we have eight years to almost halve […]