New CSIRO and BoM report State of the Climate 2024 gives seven-year deadline

Planet Earth’s carbon emissions budget is nearly depleted, with a harsh deadline looming to limit global warming to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5 degrees in seven years. Australia’s land temperature has already risen by 1.51 degrees since 1910, and the State of the Climate report warns that the chance to limit warming to 1.7 degrees will expire in 15 years. Urgent action is needed to reach net zero emissions and mitigate the irreversible impacts of greenhouse gases on the planet’s climate, as extreme weather events intensify and future warming becomes increasingly locked in.

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