GENEVA, Switzerland — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, locking in future temperature increases for years to come, the United Nations warned on Monday.
Levels of the three main greenhouse gases — the climate-warming carbon dioxide , methane and nitrous oxide — all increased again last year, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said.The weather agency said carbon dioxide was accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever, up more than 10 percent in two decades.
Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization, speaks during a press conference at the UN’s European headquarters in the city of Geneva, western Switzerland, on Oct. 7, 2024. EPA FILE PHOTOThe WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin comes ahead of the 29th UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Azerbaijan's capital Baku from November 11 to 22.'Another year, another record.
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