Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

Human health, water supplies, nature, cities, infrastructure and economies could all be severely damaged by temperature rises Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion. The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme confirmed…