Large crowd takes part in a 'Walk For Your Future' march on October 23, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. climate changeCurrent emissions pledges would see temperatures rise between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees above pre-industrial levels, far above the targeted 1.5 degrees agreed in the 2015 Paris Agreement."The science is clear and so are our climate goals under the Paris Agreement. We are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.
The report comes ahead of the COP27 summit in November, where countries will gather to discuss new climate change measures. Last year, during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, only 24 out of 193 nations submitted updated plans t fight climate change to the UN., the UN revealed that atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases responsible for global warming, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record highs in 2021.
"[The report] has underlined, once again, the enormous challenge – and the vital necessity – of urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent global temperatures from rising even further in the future," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.