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Last month was the hottest June since records began and the thirteenth month in a row to set a temperature record, according to new data released last week by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Efforts to limit the long-term global average surface temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century were officially endorsed under the Paris Agreement, put into effect in 2016. WMO has warned that even at today’s levels of warming, the world faces devastating climate impacts. More extreme heatwaves, rainfall events and droughts, reductions in glaciers and accelerating sea level rise are already ravaging the planet.
Sea ice at the poles is also being impacted, with the Arctic three percent below average while the Antarctic was 12 percent below average for the month of June, according to satellite data.
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