(ANSA-AFP) - PARIS, NOV 11 - The Paris climate agreement's
goals "are in great peril" and 2024 is on track to break new
temperature records, the United Nations warned Monday as COP29
talks opened in Baku. The period from 2015-2024 will also be the
warmest decade ever recorded, the UN's World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) said in a new report based on six
international datasets. That is accelerating the shrinking of
glaciers and sea-level rise, and unleashing extreme weather that
has wrought havoc on communities and economies around the world.
"The ambitions of the Paris Agreement are in great peril," WMO
said as global leaders gathered for high-stakes climate talks in
Azerbaijan. Under the Paris agreement, nearly every nation on
Earth committed to work to limit warming to "well below" two
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and preferably
below 1.5C. But the EU climate monitor Copernicus has already
said that 2024 will exceed the 1.5C. (ANSA-AFP).
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