Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate

A three-year period ending in 2025 has exceeded the 1.5 °C warming threshold for the first time, indicating that the Paris target is effectively breached despite weak emissions reductions. Scientists warn that multiple Earth-system tipping points are imminent, with already-visible impacts such as soaring heat-related deaths, unprecedented U.S. wildfires, and extreme-weather damages costing over $2 trillion in the past decade.