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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilisation and \u201cturbo-charging\u201d the Earth\u2019s climate and causing more extreme weather, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.<\/b><\/p>\n

The World Meteorological Organisation said in its latest bulletin on greenhouse gases, an annual study released ahead of the U.N.\u2019s annual climate conference, that C02 growth rates have now tripled since the 1960s, and reached levels not seen in at least 800,000 years.<\/p>\n

Emissions from burning coal, oil and gas, alongside more wildfires, have helped fan a \u201cvicious climate cycle,” and people and industries continue to spew heat-trapping gases while the planet\u2019s oceans and forests lose their ability to absorb them, the WMO report said.<\/p>\n

The Geneva-based agency said the increase in the global average concentration of carbon dioxide from 2023 to 2024 amounted to the highest annual level of any one year since measurements began in 1957. Growth rates of CO2 have accelerated from an annual average increase of 2.4 parts per million per year in the decade from 2011 to 2020, to 3.5 ppm from 2023 to 2024, WMO said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe heat trapped by CO2 and other greenhouse gases is turbo-charging our climate and leading to more extreme weather,” said WMO Deputy Secretary-General Ko Barrett in a statement. \u201cReducing emissions is therefore essential not just for our climate but also for our economic security and community well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Climate Analytics CEO Bill Hare called the new data \u201calarming and worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though fossil fuel emissions were \u201crelatively flat\u201d last year, he said, the report appeared to show an accelerating increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, \u201csignalling a positive feedback from burning forests and warming oceans driven by record global temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Let there be no mistake, this is a very clear warning sign that the world is heading into an extremely dangerous state \u2014 and this is driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuel development, globally,” Hare said. \u201cI\u2019m beginning to feel that this points to a slow-moving climate catastrophe unfolding in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

WMO called on policymakers to take more steps to help reduce emissions.<\/p>\n

While several governments have been pushing for further use of hydrocarbons like coal, oil and gas for energy production, some businesses and local governments have been mobilizing to fight global warming.<\/p>\n

Still, Hare said very few countries have made new climate commitments to come \u201canywhere near dealing with the gravity of the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The increase in 2024 is setting the planet on track for more long-term temperature increase, WMO said. It noted that concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide \u2014 other greenhouse gases caused by human activity \u2014 have also hit record levels.<\/p>\n

The report was bound to raise new doubts on the world’s ability to hit the goal laid out in the 2015 Paris climate accord of keeping the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.<\/p>\n

United Nations climate chief, Simon Stiell, has said the Earth is now on track for 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s global data for this year through June reveals that carbon dioxide rates are still rising at one of the highest rates on record, yet not quite as high as from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s monthly data for the long-running Hawaii monitoring location for 2025 through August also showed CO2 rates are still increasing, but not as much as between 2023-2024.<\/p>\n

Source: UN<\/b><\/p>\n

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