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A man carries a plastic bucket across the cracked bed of a dried-up pond in Vietnam’s southern Ben Tre province on March 19, 2024. Every day, farmer Nguyen Hoai Thuong prays in vain for rain to fall on the cracked dry earth of her garden in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta—the country’s ‘rice bowl’ agricultural heartland. A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in Thuong’s home of Ben Tre province, 130 kilometers south of business hub Ho Chi Minh City.
Based on data from multiple agencies, the study confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45°C above the pre-industrial baseline. It crowned the warmest 10-year period on record. On an average day in 2023, nearly one third of the ocean surface was gripped by a marine heatwave, harming vital ecosystems and food systems, the report found.
The Antarctic sea ice loss was by far the lowest on record—at one million square kilometers below the previous record year—equivalent to the size of France and Germany combined. The report, for example, cites figures that the number of people who are acutely food insecure worldwide has more than doubled, from 149 million before the COVID-19 pandemic to 333 million in 2023 in 78 countries monitored by the World Food Program .
Effective multi-hazard early warning systems are crucial for mitigating the impact of disasters. The Early Warnings for All initiative aims to ensure universal protection through early warning systems by 2027.
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