- Humanity is “going in the wrong direction” on climate change due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the U.N. said in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic.
- The U.N.’s United in Science report underscores how, nearly three years since COVID-19 handed governments a unique opportunity to reassess how to power their economies, countries are ploughing ahead with pollution as normal.
- It warned the continued use of fossil fuels meant the chance of the annual mean global temperature temporarily exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years was roughly even (48 percent).
World going in ‘wrong direction’ as climate impacts worsen: U.N.
