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This year is “virtually certain” to be the hottest on record and the first full year above the globally agreed 1.5C warming limit, EU climate monitor Copernicus said Thursday.
Days before nations are due to gather for crunch UN climate talks, Copernicus Deputy Director Samantha Burgess said this “marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29”.
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