With the EU's recent declaration of 2023 as the world's hottest year, mitigating the increasing global warming is the need of the hour. Here's a lowdown on the causes, repercussions, and possible solutions
On January 9, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed 2023 to be the world’s hottest year in the last 100,000 years. Scientists have highlighted that, since June 2023, every month has been the world's hottest on record compared with the corresponding month in previous years. The EU has stated that, on an average, the Earth experienced a temperature increase of 1.48°C in 2023 compared to the pre-industrial period of 1850-1900—an era marked by the commencement of widespread industrial-scale burning of fossil fuels, leading to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.