2023-10-05 08:07:55
2023 is approaching the 1.5°C mark of the Paris agreement. Climate change and El Niño have contributed to recent extreme temperatures.
Bad climate news follows one another and is similar. After experiencing months of record heat during the summer, it’s now all year round 2023 on track to become hottest on record. The first seven months of this year thus displayed a planetary temperature exceeding pre-industrial era norms by 1.4°C (1850-1900).
The climate change and the resurgence of the phenomenon The boy, a warming of the surface of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, have ignited mercury, according to an analysis by Copernicus (C3S), the European Union’s climate sentinel. El Niño had not manifested its presence for seven years.
2023 is thus gradually approaching the bar of 1,5°C of the Paris agreement. “It is not certain that 2023 will reach 1.5°C. But we are quite close to it,” Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S, told AFP.
“With two months to go before COP28, the urgency for ambitious climate action has never been greater.”
Hitting this iconic milestone, however, does not necessarily mean that we have reached the boldest limit set by the Paris Agreement. Indeed, this agreement looks at climate trends spanning decades, not just years. According to the IPCC, the assembly of climate experts mandated by the United Nations, we will cross this critical threshold of 1.5°C from the decade 2030-2035.
The World Meteorological Organization projected in the spring that this symbolic mark would be exceeded for a full year in the next five years.
The hottest month of September
During this time, “September 2023 rose to the rank of hottest September never seen on a global scale”, continuing a cascade of monthly world records that began in June. Remember that July 2023 took the undisputed title, all months considered. And with an average temperature of 16.38°C on the earth’s surface, the past month surpassed the previous record of September 2020, with a “extraordinary” advance of 0.5°Cunderlined Copernicus this Thursday.
The month of September 2023 is “1.75°C warmer than the average September over the period 1850-1900”.
“The unseasonably high temperatures observed in September, after an unprecedented summer, broke all records in an extraordinary way,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus.
“Two months from COP28“the urgency for ambitious climate action has never been greater,” she added. The annual UN climate conference opens next month in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A state itself criticized for its lack of consideration for global warming, ironically.
September 2023 is like this “1.75°C warmer than the average September over the period 1850-1900”, added Copernicus. While fluctuations in global temperatures are generally quantified in simple fractions of a degree, September 2023 exceeded the average for the same month over the period 1991-2020 by 0.9°C, thus constituting “the strongest monthly anomaly” ever measured by Copernicus, whose archive dates back to 1940.
All the continents concerned, the seas too…
No continent has been spared from these unprecedented disruptions. In Europe, September 2023 thus marked a new continental summit for the launch of meteorological autumn; in France, the mercury has crossed the 35°C barrier until the beginning of October.
According to Copernicus, la average sea temperature also set a new monthly peak in September, at 20.92°C. This is a new monthly record for the last month of summer and the second highest measurement behind August 2023.
EU must triple annual installation of wind turbines
17 European Union (EU) countries have ambitions for wind energy installations well below the objectives of the Paris agreementindicated this Thursday, the environmental organization WWF in its latest report on wind energy in the EU.
Throughout the EU, the planned efforts remain insufficient, points out the WWF. If the annual deployment of wind energy reached 16 GW over the year, in 2022, it should triple this number by the end of the decade to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
Belgium is one of the good European students with the objective of developing 10,24 GW thanks to wind energy by 2030 compared to 5.3 GW in 2022. The Paris agreement provided for Belgium to develop 8.21 GW thanks to wind energy in 2030.
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