Global World News Climate Officials Mark World Environment Day By Announcing 12 Months Of Record High Temperatures

Global carbon levels rose by record amount in 2024, U.N. agency says

Carbon dioxide emissions from human activities and wildfires rose last year, while the land and oceans’ ability to absorb carbon diminished, leading to a record surge in the amount of the ... Read More

World will overshoot 1.5C climate goal, UN says

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next ... Read More

Climate leaders are talking about ‘overshoot’ into warming danger zone. Here’s what it means

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The world’s climate leaders are conceding that Earth’s warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the planet out of a danger zone. But they’re ... Read More

It's official: The world will speed past 1.5 C climate threshold in the next decade, UN says

Countries agreed to pursue efforts to remain below 1.5 C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and to limit global warming to "well below" 2 C (3.6 F) a decade ago in the Paris Agreement. These targets were based ... Read More

Climate summit hears from countries suffering from harms, destruction linked to global warming

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered searing dispatches of life on the front line of a warming planet Friday, as world leaders gathered on the edge ... Read More

Climate leaders are talking about 'overshoot' into warming danger zone. Here's what it means

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The world's climate leaders are conceding that Earth's warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the planet out of a danger zone. But they're ... Read More