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Overshoot briefing note
This report sets out global investment required in negative emissions technologies to return global temperatures to 1.5°C, and the human and environment impacts of an overshoot.
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A short review of ‘overshoot’ pathways, a term used to describe a scenario in which global average temperature temporarily exceeds 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels before returning to below this warming level by 2100.
The report sets out both the very large global investment in negative emissions technologies that would be required to return global temperatures to 1.5°C and the additional human and environment impacts of an overshoot.
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Published 8 February 2024