The annual average near-surface global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will likely be more than 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels for at least one year.
GENEVA (AN) — In just three years, the odds of temporarily breaching the 2015 Paris Agreement's "safe" temperature guardrail rose from 20% to 66%.
In 2020, the U.N. weather agency released climate predictions showing there was about a 20% chance that one of the next five years would show Earth has warmed by at least 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
'Minutes to midnight': World hits 1.4° of post-industrial warming as climate summit in Dubai opens with new loss and damage fund and report disputing a leader's credibility.
An internal audit found a US$31 million funding gap and deficiencies in U.N. Climate Change's Transparency Division.
Emissions must decrease 42% by 2030 to keep the 1.5° target alive. Instead, they're expected to rise 3% by then.
Heat-trapping gases keep collecting in the atmosphere at a record rate, the U.N. weather agency found.
'Minutes to midnight': World hits 1.4° of post-industrial warming as climate summit in Dubai opens with new loss and damage fund and report disputing a leader's credibility.
Almost a quarter of the world faces human-induced drought, and 85% of those live in low- or middle-income countries.
A handful of fossil fuel producing countries, petrochemical industries and lobbyists show no interest in a strong, restrictive and legally binding instrument.
An internal audit found a US$31 million funding gap and deficiencies in U.N. Climate Change's Transparency Division.
