Despite the heat-reducing promises of the richest nations on the planet, scientists expect the world to soon exceed 2.0 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial values of the period 1850-1900.
On November 17, the Earth’s global temperature reached 2.06 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, according to a preliminary analysis by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
This short-term break was associated by specialists in Meteorology with the El Niño phenomenon, which gained strength caused by human activity, and the climate rise caused by human activity, through the irrational burning of fossil fuels, which emanate greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Recently, the International Energy Agency projected a peak in the demand for such fuels in this decade, even though renewable energy sources and electric vehicle manufacturers have recently made remarkable progress.
For experts, the urgent world meeting in the United Arab Emirates seems to be a propitious scenario where companies and industrial consortiums will once again seek to maintain their relevance in a world involved in a necessary but still very slow process of decarbonization.
The current COP28 presidency has before it the objective of making this international climate meeting the most “inclusive” in history, in an era in which the unbridled use of coal and oil, above all, does not cease to release its polluting greenhouse gases.
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