The rate of temperature rises in the last 50 years is the highest in 2,000 years, and concentrations of carbon dioxide are the highest in at least 2 million years.
‘Fingerprints’ of climate change marking increasingly extreme weather events, research suggests 95
Guterres said he had proposed a plan to the G20 countries, a Climate Solidarity Pact, in which all big greenhouse gas emitters make additional efforts to cut emissions, as well as calling on wealthy countries to mobilize financial and technical resources to support emerging economies in a joint effort to keep the 1.5-degree Celsius goal alive.
He also noted that the rate of temperature rises in the last 50 years is the highest in 2,000 years, and concentrations of carbon dioxide are the highest in at least 2 million years.
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