The World Meteorological Organisation warned this week that the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high last year and is rising again this year
A activist holds up a placard during a climate strike demonstration ahead of the World Climate Conference in Glasgow, in front of the Swiss House of Parliament in Swiss capital Bern on October 22, 2021.
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The world’s countries have begun to make meaningful progress in the fight against climate change over the past decade, new data shows, thanks to a rapid expansion of clean energy. Yet the planet is still on track for dangerous levels of warming in the years ahead unless those efforts accelerate rapidly.
As leaders from around the globe gather in Glasgow, Scotland, for a pivotal United Nations climate summit next week, the focus will be on how much hotter the Earth will get and how to keep that number as small as possible.
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