Climate change has caused extreme weather and record heat in 2024. This was stated by the United Nations, urging the world to abandon the "road to ruin".
The coming year will be the hottest on record, the UN's climate and climate change agency said, ending a decade of unprecedented heatwaves.
Meanwhile, greenhouse gas emissions have reached new record highs, leading to increasing heat in the future, the World Meteorological Organization said.
"Climate change is manifesting itself before our eyes almost daily in the form of increasingly frequent extreme weather events. This year, we have witnessed record rainfall and flooding and terrible loss of life in many countries, which has broken the hearts of communities on every continent," said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.
"Tropical cyclones have caused terrible human and economic tolls, most recently in the French overseas department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Intense heatwaves scorched dozens of countries, with temperatures exceeding 50°C in a number of cases. Forest fires have caused devastation," she added. | BGNES
