Current global policies will lead to 2.5C temperature rise by 2100, experts warn 

A mother helps her malnourished son stand after he collapsed near their hut in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya. The UN says there is a severe climate-induced humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa. Africa accounts for just under 4% of the world's emissions from fossil fuels.

Current government policies across the world will lead to a 2.5C temperature rise by 2100, a major analysis has found.

Hampered by a lack of cooperation and focus on short-term energy security concerns, global warming will blast right through the 1.5C temperature limit envisaged by the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, British firm Aurora Energy Research calculated.