2023-11-15 17:36:46
This is a very sad record announced this Wednesday, November 15 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). According to the UN agency, concentrations of greenhouse gases, responsible for climate change, will break records again in 2022.
Published two weeks before the next COP28 scheduled for the end of November in Dubai, this greenhouse gas bulletin details that global CO2 concentrations have exploded to exceed pre-industrial values by 50%. Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) also caused panic on the counters last year, recording the strongest annual increase ever recorded.
A worrying observation as the +1.5°C objective of the Paris Agreement seems increasingly illusory. According to a previous report, the United Nations indicated that we had already reached +1.15°C compared to the pre-industrial period. “Weather conditions will become more extreme: intense heat and heavy precipitation, melting ice, rising sea levels and warming and acidification of the oceans”, and “we will see a surge in socio-economic and environmental costs”, warns the head of the WMO.
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