18 MAY,2023.
Key climate threshold likely to be breached in 5 years: UN (PG 14)(GS 3)
18 MAY,2023.
•It is nearcertain that 20232027 will be the warmest fiveyear period ever recorded, the United Nations warned on Wednesday as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring.
•There is a two thirds chance that at least one of the next five years will see global temperatures exceed the more ambitious target set out in the Paris accords on limiting climate change, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.
•The hottest eight years ever recorded were all between 2015 and 2022, with 2016 the warmest — but temperatures are forecast to increase further as climate change accelerates. “There is a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years, and the fiveyear period as a whole, will be the warmest on record,” the WMO said.