We're about to exceed 1.5-degree global warming limit, according to the UN

Global warming will soon cross a critical threshold, surpassing a dangerous limit set years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found.

But experts say it's still possible to cool things back down, emphasizing that the stakes are too high to stop trying.

In 2015, 196 nations and territories signed the Paris Agreement, pledging to restrict the average rise of global temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

Ideally, the rise was meant to be kept to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) above those levels.

However, according to a new report detailed by the UNEP , we are on track to cross that 1.5 C line — and soon.

"This summer's scorching heat, raging wildfires and deadly floods are a warning of what lies ahead.

We must make the overshoot above 1.5 degrees as small and short as possible.

That demands an overshoot of ambition," U.N.

Secretary-General Antőnio Guterres said in a statement .

According to the new report, experts have found that if we as a planet continue with business as usual, not only will we pass 1.5 C, but it will happen within just a few years.

The report, however, maintained a positive tone.

Rather than simply predicting a doomsday plot, the main purpose of this release is to outline a pathway with the necessary steps to set things on the right track.

"As global temperature rise gets set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to dangerous new heights, the world must strive to return to below 1.5°C as soon as possible and simultaneously reduce the vulnerability of societies, communities and economies to climate impacts," the report, titled "Limiting Overshoot: Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return," states in its abstract .

Climate change is primarily caused and driven by human activities like transportation, industrial manufacturing, agriculture and more.