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Current affairsUNEP "Limiting Overshoot" Report 2026: World Set to Breach 1.5°C — Paris Agreement Pathways and India's Climate ObligationsUNEP's "Limiting Overshoot" report (September 2026) declares that breaching the 1.5°C Paris Agreement warming threshold is now unavoidable in the near term. Without enhanced action, global temperatures could reach 2.6°C by 2100, but an "overshoot-peak-decline" pathway can return temperatures below 1.5°C through aggressive emissions cuts and large-scale carbon dioxide removal. Current affairsKerala (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2026: Parliament Renames Kerala as "Keralam" — Article 3, First Schedule, and Constitutional ProcedureParliament passed the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2026 in both Houses — Lok Sabha on August 11 and Rajya Sabha on August 12, 2026 — to rename the state from "Kerala" to "Keralam" in the First Schedule of the Constitution. The Bill awaits Presidential assent. It follows the constitutional procedure under Article 3, requiring only a simple majority, not a constitutional amendment under Article 368.