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Adaptation planning must include 1.5°C overshoot scenarios
March 2026

Adaptation planning must include 1.5°C overshoot scenarios

Dr Rosanne Martyr, Prof Dr Michiel Schaeffer, Sylvia Schmidt, Bill Hare

Adaptation planning should include the impacts that can be avoided by high mitigation ambition – including which impacts are reversible from overshooting the 1.5°C limit and which are irreversible. This includes mitigation actions themselves, such as carbon dioxide removal, to avoid land use challenges.