World on track for nearly 3C of warming under current climate plans, UN report warns

The world is on track for 2.5 to 2.9C of heating this century under current Paris Agreement climate plans, a new UN report has found.

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00:00 The world is set to speed past an agreed-upon international climate threshold, facing rising

00:06 global temperatures of 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by the

00:12 end of the century. That's according to a new United Nations report released just days

00:18 before the start of COP28 in Dubai. The world has already caught a glimpse of what could

00:22 happen if global warming continues. Since June, the average global temperature each

00:28 month has been the hottest on record. And now 2023 is set to become the hottest year

00:33 ever recorded. To keep temperatures to the agreed-upon 1.5 degrees Celsius limit adopted

00:39 by the 2015 Paris Accord, countries would have to act fast and slash their emissions

00:44 by 42% by the end of the decade. A challenging task as emissions from the burning of coal,

00:51 oil and gas actually rose by 1.2% last year.

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