TIMELINE: 2024 on track be the hottest year on record

Record ID: 1862015

  • Title: TIMELINE: 2024 on track be the hottest year on record
  • Date: 7th November 2024
  • Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (FILE - JANUARY 24, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FIRE BURNING ON HILL VALENCIA, SPAIN (FILE - JANUARY 25, 2024) (REUTERS) PEOPLE ON BEACH, WOMAN JOGGING SHIRTLESS MAN SITTING ON BENCH SUNBATHING THERMOMETER ON ROADSIDE READING 24C (75F) The El Nino weather pattern has begun to weaken but will continue to fuel above average temperatures across the globe, the
  • Embargoed: 21st November 2024 03:06
  • Keywords: 2024 Climate change extreme fire heat temperature
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  • Topics: Environment,Temperature
  • Reuters ID: LVA003262609092024RP1
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  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT IS A TIMELINE AND CONTAINS NO FRESH MATERIAL
    2024 on track be the hottest year on record, and the first to cross 1.5C (2.7 Fahrenheit), the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in November
    Last year in 2023, the world registered a shocking record of 1.48°C above the pre-industrial level. This year is expected to top that, potentially reaching above 1.55C on average.
    Nearly 200 countries committed in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to as close to 1.5C as possible. While these records do not mean we've breached the Paris Agreement's target, scientists expect the world will cross that threshold by the early 2030s.
    Carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal, oil and gas are the main cause of global warming.
    Countries at November's COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient.
    The world is currently on track for as much as 3.1 C (5.6 F) of warming by the end of this century, according to the 2024 U.N. Emissions Gap report, with global greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use continuing to rise.
    (Production: Olga Vyshnevska, Carla O'Connor)
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