In its State of the Global Climate report 2025, WMO said that every key climate indicator is raising alarms and that the years from 2015 to 2025 have been the hottest 11 years.
A group of 29 countries, mainly small island states and those from Europe, rejected the draft text because it skipped any mention of a roadmap on fossil fuel phase-out, which was one of their key demands.
The official language in Belém is Portuguese and most of them are not at all akin to English or other languages like Mandarin or Spanish that are common around the globe.
After the blaze broke out, the entire venue was cordoned off. However, later on Thursday evening, operations resumed around 9 pm (0530 Friday India time).
The Brazilian president also maintained that taking care of the environment also means that rich (developed) nations should support the poor nations wholeheartedly.
India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav held a bilateral meeting with China’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Liu Zhenmin, on Wednesday to coordinate their strategy on these issues.
Brazil proposed to hold informal backroom consultations on these discussion points to narrow down the differences and hold a stocktake meeting on Wednesday after that to decide what needed to be done with these.
According to the WMO’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, CO₂ levels saw their steepest-ever increase, rising by about 3.5 parts per million (ppm) between 2023 and 2024.
“Collectively we are moving the dial on sustainable products and demonstrating that Formula 1 continues to be the fastest laboratory in the world,” said Toto Wolff.
The researchers found that the estimated damage to the global economy, in per capita GDP terms, from a 3 degree Celsius temperature rise by the end of the century increased from an average of 11 per cent in previous studies to 40 per cent.
UN Climate Change chief Simon Stiell said the disintegration of the international climate change architecture would be a disaster for ‘every economy and population’.
January 2025 globally was 0.09 degrees Celsius warmer than January 2024, the previous hottest January, and was 1.75 C warmer than it was before industrial times.
Without a faster transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, California will continue to get hotter, drier and more flammable, says Clair Barnes of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.
