According to him, "the concentration of carbon dioxide rose again to a new maximum - 148% above the pre-industrial level."
He said that "this is the highest level in 3 million years, when the temperature of the Earth was 3 degrees higher and the sea level was about 15 m higher."
“In line with our current commitments, we are still heading towards a catastrophic 2.4-degree rise in temperature by the end of the century.
We are on the brink of an abyss ... But if we work together, we can prevent the worst consequences of climate destabilization and use the recovery from the pandemic to embark on a cleaner and greener path of development, "Guterres quoted TASS.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that the United States plans to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to the 2005 figure.
Climatologist, senior researcher at the Institute of Water Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nina Zaitseva, in an interview with the NSN, assessed climate change in Russia.