Scientists defend UN overshoot report after Saudi-led push to sideline it at COP31

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Scientists behind a landmark UN report on overshooting the 1.5C warming limit have defended its credibility, after Saudi Arabia and other large developing countries questioned its scientific legitimacy and sought to keep it out of the main political decision expected from COP31.

The UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) Limiting Overshoot report, published in September, examines how to minimise an almost certain breach of the Paris Agreement's temperature goal, what crossing it will mean for people and ecosystems and how temperatures could be brought back down.

The European Union, the UK, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and small island states are among those pushing for COP31 to make the response to overshoot of 1.5C one of the summit's priorities.

Scientists behind a landmark UN report on overshooting the 1.5C warming limit have defended its credibility, after Saudi Arabia and other large developing countries questioned its scientific legitimacy and sought to keep it out of the main political decision expected from COP31.

The UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) Limiting Overshoot report, published in September, examines how to minimise an almost certain breach of the Paris Agreement's temperature goal, what crossing it will mean for people and ecosystems and how temperatures could be brought back down.

The European Union, the UK, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and small island states are among those pushing for COP31 to make the response to overshoot of 1.5C one of the summit's priorities.

But during closed-door consultations on the cover decision this week, the Arab Group, led by Saudi Arabia, have tried to cast doubt on the report's scientific rigour, arguing it had not been peer-reviewed, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

Meanwhile, the bloc of Like-Minded Developing Countries (LDMCs), which included India and China, called for the cover decision to avoid references to reports produced outside the UN climate process, seen by observers as a…

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