State of the Global Climate 2023

State of the Global Climate 2023

World Meteorological Organization has published the State of the Global Climate 2023 report.

Among the key messages of the report:

  • 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45 °Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline. It was the warmest ten-year period on record.
  • The global set of reference glaciers suffered the largest loss of ice on record (since 1950), driven by extreme melt in both western North America and Europe.
  • Antarctic sea ice extent was by far the lowest on record.
  • The number of people who are acutely food insecure worldwide has more than doubled, from 149 million people before the COVID-19 pandemic to 333 million people in 2023 (in 78 monitored countries by the World Food Programme).
  • In 2023, renewable capacity additions increased by almost 50% from 2022, for a total of 510 gigawatts (GW) – the highest rate observed in the past two decades.

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