“No end in sight” to rising greenhouse gasses: UN weather agency

The concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere reached a record high last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, warning there was "no end in sight" to the trend.

The warning comes weeks before world leaders are due to gather in Dubai for the annual United Nations (UN) climate conference, COP28, which will see governments push for greater climate action, including a possible phase-out of fossil fuels before 2050.

“We have shown in the report that we have again broken a less comfortable record in main greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. And for example, now we have 150 per cent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than we had during the pre-industrial times,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said.

Higher concentrations of greenhouse gasses would be accompanied by more extreme weather events, including intense heat and rainfall, ice melt, higher sea levels, as well as ocean heat and acidification, Taalas said.

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