The UN warned on Wednesday of a high risk that global warming between 2025 and 2029 will exceed 1.5 degrees. This is stated in an annual climate report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which is part of the UN.
The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees stems from the Paris Agreement, which a large number of countries signed in 2015. There is currently a 70 percent probability that the average temperature increase will be greater than that in the coming years, the report says. It comes after two years that both broke heat records.
Overall, the last decade has been the warmest ever recorded, says WMO Deputy Secretary-General Ko Barrett.
- Unfortunately, there is no sign in this report from the WMO that there will be a respite in the coming years. This means that there will be an increasingly negative impact on our economies, our everyday lives, our ecosystems and our planet, says Ko Barrett.
Countries agreed on temperature targets
The Paris Agreement stipulated that countries should jointly limit global warming to well below 2 degrees - if possible below 1.5 degrees.
The temperature increase is calculated in relation to the average temperatures in the late 19th century, when industrialization started burning large amounts of coal, oil and gas.
The target of limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 percent is considered impossible to achieve by an increasing number of climate scientists. This is because global CO2 emissions continue to rise.
According to the WMO forecast, there is an 80 percent chance that at least one of the years between 2025 and 2029 will be warmer than the record year 2024.
The EU's climate service, Copernicus, has also indicated that the 1.5 degree target will soon be exceeded. This will probably happen in mid-2029 or earlier, Copernicus estimates. The planet has currently warmed by 1.39 degrees, according to the climate service's calculations.
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