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[Síguenos ahora también en Whatsapp. Da clic aquí] The most important scientific data collected show that The first eight months of 2024 were the warmest since measurements were taken.the

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The most important scientific data collected show that The first eight months of 2024 were the warmest since measurements were taken.the Secretary General said on Wednesday World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Celeste Saulo.

The Argentine scientist emphasized that The world is far from achieving the climate goals set in 2015.on the occasion of the adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

At the launch in Geneva of the United on Science report, a collaboration between several organizations that aims to guide the ongoing climate debate at the UN General Assembly, Saulo He recalled that 2023 was already the warmest year “by a huge margin,” but he also wanted to add a bit of hope.

In this regard, he recalled that when The Paris Agreement in 2015 projected that emissions of global warming gases would increase by 16% between 2030 and 2030.but the truth is that the latest forecasts They point to growth of 3%.

“So progress has been made, but we need to be much more ambitious”said at a press conference, where he also stressed that there is an 80% chance that the planet’s average temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), at least during one of the next five years.

Unless government policy and industrial development change radically, what It is more likely that by the end of the century the increase in measured temperatures will reach 3 degrees.

However, Saul insisted that there was hope because the sciences (natural and social), New technologies and innovations allow us to better understand how the planet works. and can be determining factors achieve adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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