Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been found to be “at an all-time high”, with human activity resulting in the equivalent of 54 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere on average every year over the last decade.
A group of 50 leading scientists have said in an analysis that human-caused global warming has continued to increase at an “unprecedented rate” since the last major assessment of the climate system published two years ago.
One of the researchers said the analysis was a “timely wake-up call” and it comes as climate experts meet in Bonn, Germany, to prepare the ground for the major COP28 climate conference in the UAE in December,