Global warming tops milestone ahead of climate summit

2024 is likely to be the hottest year ever recorded, with global warming already exceeding the threshold ... Azerbaijan’s climate leadership challenge. “Our delicate Earth systems are in ... Read More

Has the world abandoned the 1.5C global warming threshold?

With 2024 almost certain to be the warmest in human history, why have countries failed to stay under the 1.5C global warming barrier agreed worldwide? Read More

In First, Earth’s Temperature Breached Key Threshold Over a 12-Month Period

PARIS—Earth’s temperature ... ending January, the first time temperatures averaged over a yearlong period have breached this key threshold in international climate diplomacy. Read More

World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit

For the first time, global ... much warming the world experiences, based on our choices as a society, and as a planet," says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at US group Berkeley Earth. Read More

Global Carbon Emissions Rise, Pushing World Toward Dreaded Warming Threshold

further jeopardizing the planet’s prospect of meeting a key goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming, according to an annual report that tracks emissions. Burning fossil ... Read More

A strange new climate era is beginning to take hold

For almost a decade, climate ... Global Carbon Project, said in an email that hurtling toward the globe’s key target is sobering. “I never expected the world to blow past the 1.5 °C threshold ... Read More

Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold

That means humanity has passed a critical threshold established in 2015 in the Paris climate accord ... emission causes another increment of global warming and so each emission avoided is ... Read More