This article is published in association with United Nations. UN weather experts from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record, at 1.55 degrees Celsius (C) above pre-industrial temperatures. “We saw extraordinary land, sea surface temperatures, extraordinary ocean heat accompanied by very extreme weather affecting many countries around the […]Confirmed: 2024 was the hottest year on record, says UN weather agency
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This article is published in association with United Nations. UN weather experts from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record, at 1.55 degrees Celsius (C) above pre-industrial temperatures. “We saw extraordinary land, sea surface temperatures, extraordinary ocean heat accompanied by very extreme weather affecting many countries around the […]Is 2023 going to be the hottest year on record?
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Ian Shine, Senior Writer, Forum Agenda Vietnam, Poland, Spain, China, Latvia, Myanmar, Portugal, Belarus, the Netherlands, Thailand … these are just some of the countries where temperature records have been broken this year. At the same time, the southern […]European Forest Fire report: Three of the worst fire seasons on record took place in the last six years
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published the latest edition of its Annual Report on Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in 2021. It concludes that last year’s fire season was the second worst in the EU territory in […]These charts show record renewable energy investment in 2022
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Energy investment has increased since the onset of the war in Ukraine.Three-quarters of the growth in investment is from renewable energy.Progress varies between countries, with emerging markets struggling to invest more in clean energy. The total energy bill paid by the world’s consumers is […]
