UN warns 1.5C climate goal 'will soon be dead' without rapid emissions cut

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World leaders are running out of time to stave off catastrophic climate change, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday as a UN report said current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century – more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago in Paris.