Last year tied with 2015 as the fifth-warmest year, since record-keeping began in 1880
The world's average global temperature is now 1.1°C to 1.2°C higher than pre-industrial times
and the last nine years were the warmest since the pre-industrial period
putting the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C in serious jeopardy
"At the rate that we're going, it's not going to take more than two decades to get us to that. And the only way that we're not going to do that is if we stop putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere." (Gavin Schmidt, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director)
The changing climate fueled weather extremes across the planet in 2022
Europe suffered its hottest summer on record
Pakistan floods killed 1,700 people and wrecked infrastructure
and wildfires ripped through Mediterranean countries
Despite the world's major emitters pledging to slash their net emissions to zero
global CO2 emissions continue to rise
