3 key graphics from the U.N. climate report (original) (raw)
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 2023 climate report detailing what the panel's chair, Hoesung Lee, called "the urgency of taking more ambitious [climate] action."
The report found that the world is pushing towards 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming over pre-industrial levels and will likely surpass that temperature in "the first half of the 2030s," The New York Times reported. The 1.5-degree threshold was proposed in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. If the Earth warms beyond that level, ecological problems become much more likely and extreme. The planet has already warmed by 1.1 degrees Celsius.
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