Record-Hot 2024 Seen Breaching 1.5C Paris Target for First Time
- This year likely to be the warmest year on record: Copernicus
- Global warming landmark comes just before COP29 climate talks
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This year will be the hottest on record, and the first to exceed the target set at the Paris climate conference in 2015, according to a European Union data service.
The temperature in 2024 will likely be more than 1.55C above the pre-industrial level, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a statement on Thursday. The landmark Paris Agreement called for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the hope of limiting global warming to 2C (3.6F), and ideally 1.5C, above temperatures at the outset of the Industrial Revolution.