Warming trend in Asia set to cause more disruption: UN weather agency

Climate change impacts are increasing in Asia, which is warming faster than the global average, the World Meteorological Office (WMO) said in a new report published on Thursday.  https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2023/07/1139152
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Warming trend in Asia set to cause more disruption: UN weather agency
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Europe hotting up more than twice global average: WMO

02 Nov 2022

Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any continent in the world. As the warming trend continues, exceptional heat, wildfires, floods and other climate change impacts will affect society, economies and ecosystems, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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Climate: World getting ‘measurably closer’ to 1.5-degree threshold

09 May 2022

There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), published on Tuesday in Geneva. 

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Climate change increasing threats in southwest Pacific: WMO report

10 Nov 2021

From rising sea temperatures, to deadly and devastating storms and floods, climate change is increasing threats in the southwest Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report published on Wednesday.