After a drop due to the Covid-19 pandemic, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have started to rise again and are now at record levels, putting the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement at risk, says a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published on Thursday 16 September.
“Throughout the pandemic we have heard that we must build back better to set humanity on a more sustainable path (...) This report shows that so far in 2021 we are not going in the right direction”,...