AOSIS rejects calls to abandon 1.5°C goal amid overshoot warning

The Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) is warn­ing gov­ern­ments not to treat the pos­si­bil­i­ty of glob­al tem­per­a­tures ex­ceed­ing 1.5°C as a rea­son to aban­don the cli­mate tar­get, fol­low­ing the re­lease of a new Unit­ed Na­tions En­vi­ron­ment Pro­gramme re­port on lim­it­ing tem­per­a­ture over­shoot.