Climate change: WMO unveils plans for sustainable monitoring of greenhouse gases

A UN-led plan to tackle climate change by radically improving the way heat-trapping atmospheric pollutants are measured all over the planet, is being given serious consideration by governments and the international scientific community, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2023/02/1133047
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Climate change: Another year of record gas emissions, warns UN meteorological agency

25 Nov 2019

Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide – have reached yet another high, the UN meteorological agency, WMO, said on Monday.

Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels

26 Oct 2022

Atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases warming our planet - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide- all reached new record highs in 2021, according to a new report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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Global temperatures set to break records during next 5 years: WMO

17 May 2023

Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño weather pattern, according to a new update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Wednesday.