Disaggregate level assessment

Key messages

(09 Sep 2020)

Global mean near-surface temperature during the last decade (2010-2019) was 0.94 to 1.03°C warmer than the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record. European land temperatures have increased even faster over the same period, by 1.7 to 1.9°C. All UNFCC member countries have committed in the Paris Agreement to limiting the global temperature increase to well below 2°C above the pre-industrial level and to aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Without drastic cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions, even the 2°C limit will already be exceeded before 2050.

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