Numbers only reveal the tip of the climate change iceberg, and the international community needs to accelerate its joint response to the crisis. With a month to go before the year wraps up, the World Meteorological Organization on November 30 labeled 2023 the hottest 12-month period in almost 175 years of collecting climate data.
“The era of global warming has ended and the era of global boiling has arrived,” UN Secretary General António Guterres stated during a press conference in July after scientists had confirmed that month had then been on track to becoming the world’s hottest on record.
As of late September this year, 86 days with temperatures over 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels had been recorded. September was the warmest month ever on record, with global average temperatures 1.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to the Emissions Gap Report 2023, released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ahead of the 28th session of the Conference of
