## UNEP declaration of expected 1.5°C overshoot must spark urgent political response Amsterdam – Concerted and extensive action to transition away from fossil fuels and end forest destruction must become the driving force of government policy in response to the United Nations Environmental Programme’s (UNEP) warning that the global temperature rise will exceed 1.5°C, likely within the next few years. The new UNEP report represents the first United Nations (UN) report describing a 1.5°C “overshoot, peak and decline” pathway and comes amid a year of worsening heatwaves, wildfires and a…