The United Nations said on Wednesday that four key indicators of climate change had reached record highs in the year 2021.
Key climate change indicators reached record levels.
Key climate change indicators hit record highs in 2021, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
The last seven years have been the warmest on record.
Professor Taalas said it was just a matter of time before we see another warmest year on record.
The UN Secretary-General said the report is a dismal list of humanity's failure to tackle climate disruption and urged governments to do more to fix it.
Private and public investment in the renewable energy sector should be tripled a year to at least $4 trillion, and intellectual property protections for renewable energy technologies should be lifted.
He said that governments must stop fossil fuel subsidies that artificially lower their prices.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its latest assessment that human actions were responsible for the crisis. The leading authority said that changes to the climate have already occurred due to human actions and some of the changes are slower than the atmosphere. The crisis is causing an increase in extreme weather, destabilizing food and water security, and causing billions in economic damage.
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