GENEVA (AN) — The World Meteorological Organization confirmed the global average surface temperature in 2024 likely was 1.55° Celsius above pre-industrial levels – the warmest calendar year on record and first to exceed the major climate threshold set under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Signed by 195 countries, the United Nations-led legally binding treaty's main goal is to limit global warming to well below 2° C., with an aspiration to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° above the 1850-1900 average by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the main culprit for the warming.
