The last eight years were the hottest to date, says European body

O European body report (🇬🇧) indicates that humanity is taking great strides towards not achieving the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement.

It is worth remembering that the 2015 treaty aims to maintain the global warming in this century “well below” 2ºC in relation to pre-industrial levels. However, withpromeurge the parties to make “efforts to limit the temperature rise to 1,5°C”.

As a result of this warming, these years have seen exceptional droughts, or floods, and an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases In the atmosphere.

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Pakistan gets $9 billion in promeassistance after floods

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