Last year was the hottest in history across Europe as temperature records were shattered by a series of extreme heatwaves, the European Union's ...
PARIS: Last year was the hottest in history across Europe as temperature records were shattered by a series of extreme heatwaves, the European Union's satellite monitoring surface said on Wednesday .
2019 globally was second-hottest only to 2016, a year that experienced an exceptionally strong El Nino warming event. To do so, and to stand any hope of meeting the accord's more ambitious cap of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the UN says emissions from fossil fuel use must fall 7.6 per cent annually by 2030.While carbon pollution levels are expected to drop significantly in 2020 due to the economic slowdown from the pandemic, there are fears that emissions will surge back once a vaccine is found.
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