Year 2024 to be the first to breach 1.5C warming limit: EU climate agency
Al Jazeera
The Copernicus Climate Change Service warning comes days before nations are due to gather for crunch climate talks led by the UN.
For the first time, the Earth’s temperature in 2024 has risen more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average, according to the European Union’s climate agency.
On Thursday, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said this year is also “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began.
“This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29,” C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess said, days before nations are due to gather for crunch climate talks led by the United Nations.
The European agency said the world was passing a “new milestone” of temperature records that should be a call to accelerate action to cut planet-heating emissions at the United Nations negotiations in Azerbaijan next week.
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