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Planet-heating pollution to hit all-time high, dashing hopes it would start to drop in 2024
The 2024 United Nations Climate Conference, COP29, is the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP29 has been held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22. COP29 aims to limit global warming to 1.5°C, emphasizing the urgent need for investment in climate action. However, while over 100 heads of state and government pledged their attendance, leaders from the largest fossil fuel emitters, the USA, China, India, Japan, Germany, and the EU didn’t show up at the conference. Before the conference, a report revealed that fossil fuel pollution this year is going to increase by 0.8% from last year. Also, global temperatures are rising to the highest level this year and surpassing the 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial times, threshold countries pledged at the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Efforts and investments have been made but not enough to keep the environment sustainable for the lives and environment.
Read the article and learn how much fossil fuels the world is still burning.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/13/climate/planet-heating-pollution-record-high/index.html
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