2024 to be warmest year on record, UN says

BBC News, November 11 — The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has just said that 2024 is on track to be the world’s warmest year on record.

The WMO says that the global average temperature between January and September has been around 1.54C above those of the late 19th Century.

Back in Paris in 2015, almost 200 countries pledged to try to limit long-term temperature rises to that level, hoping to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change.

But the UN says this 1.5C target has not yet been breached, because it refers to a longer term average.