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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