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From Common Dreams
“Never have we been so close—albeit on a temporary basis at the moment—to the 1.5°C lower limit of the Paris agreement on climate change,” WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said in a statement. “The WMO community is sounding the red alert to the world.”
The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts had found separately that January 2024 capped a 12-month period that exceeded the 1.5°C target for the first time.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2023-wmo-climate-report
Article Summary:
- 2023 was the hottest year on record with several key climate indicators breaking records.
- Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos “off the charts” according to the United Nations.
- The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached record levels in 2023.
- Renewable energy capacity increased by nearly 50% in 2023, but global climate finance is still insufficient to combat climate change.
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