the international community has to cut emissions drastically in 2025 and act with greater responsibility, as several United Nations officials indicated this Monday in a message for the new year. “The world has to abandon this path to perdition, we have no time to waste, and in 2025 countries must put the planet in a safer place by drastically reducing their emissions,” explained the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.
the Portuguese has pointed out that 2024 has completed a “decade of deadly heat” in which the 10 years of highest average temperature since records have been recorded. “We are witnessing climate collapse in real time. This path is doomed to ruin and we must abandon it as soon as possible,” he noted. In addition, he has asked countries to “support the transition to a renewable future.” “It is essential that they do it, and it is not impossible,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Argentina’s Celeste Saulo, explained: “If we want a safer world, we must act now, it is our common and global responsibility.” After 2024, which will also be the first in which the average rise in temperatures is above the 1.5 degrees that the Paris Agreement recommended not to exceed, Saulo added that “every tenth of a degree of warming matters, and increases the climatic extremes, their impacts and their dangers.”
Furthermore, “intense heat has scorched dozens of countries, with temperatures above 50 degrees on several occasions and devastating fires,” said the head of the United Nations meteorological agency.
The WMO will publish the average temperature figure for 2024 in January, confirming whether the records of 2023, so far the hottest year on record, have been broken, and in March it will issue its full report on this year’s climate. which now ends. In 2025, the year in which the WMO celebrates its 75th anniversary, the organization will pay special attention to the situation of the cryosphere (poles and high mountain frozen areas), since it has been declared the International Year of Glacier Preservation.
A record year
The one caused mainly by has reached its record level in 2024, with the warmest temperature on the planet’s surface. You also have to go back hundreds of thousands of years to find such a high concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main origin of which is . While the relationship between these gases and the increase in temperature and the harshness of meteorological phenomena linked to this crisis, right-wing populism is gaining ground in democracies, agitating climate change denialist speeches against environmental policies.
The 2025 that is about to be born will begin with the return of Donald Trump to the White House and the treaty that now governs the international climate fight. In Europe, the new Commission will also be launched, largely due to the rise of some ultra parties that have spent years blaming all the evils that the Twenty-Seven promoted.
