China News Agency, Berlin, September 9 (Reporter Peng Dawei) A report jointly completed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and other United Nations agencies released on the 9th shows that climate change has not stopped due to the new crown epidemic.

The report pointed out that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has reached a record level and continues to rise; after experiencing temporary declines brought about by the "closed city", "closed country" and economic slowdown, greenhouse gas emissions are moving towards Horizontal development before the outbreak of the new crown pandemic.

　　The report entitled "2020 Unity in Science" was compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland under the guidance of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. It brings together WMO, Global Carbon Project (GCP), and UNESCO The latest climate science related information from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UK Met Office.

　　The report emphasizes the increasing and irreversible impact of climate change and how it affects glaciers, oceans, nature, economy and human living conditions, and is often reflected in water-related disasters such as drought or flood.

It also documents how the COVID-19 pandemic hinders people’s ability to monitor these changes through the global observing system.

　　“The concentration of greenhouse gases has reached the highest level in 3 million years and continues to rise. At the same time, in the first half of 2020, a large area of ​​Siberia has experienced an obvious and long-lasting heat wave. If there is no artificial climate Change, the possibility of this event is extremely small.” WMO Secretary-General Petri Talas warned that day that 2016-2020 is destined to be the warmest five years on record.

"This report shows that in 2020, although many aspects of our lives have been disturbed, climate change will continue unabated."

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