World’s Joint Hottest Month Officially Recorded: comment

“Just two months before the next UN climate summit, another warning siren sounds at Europe’s leading Earth observation satellite, Copernicus. With thousands of people still missing after the climate-driven collapse of a glacier in the mountains of Tibet and Nepal, the world experienced its joint hottest month in August and global temperatures are climbing back above 1.5°C higher than pre-industrial levels. All whilst farmers at home face the worst harvest on record [2] as those producing the two fifths of our food that we import are looking at a powerful El Niño coming to turbo-charge the damage climate change is already wreaking. [3]

"World leaders gathering ahead of COP31 in the coming weeks know the solution: cut greenhouse gas emissions rapidly towards net zero while strengthening resilience to the impacts already locked in. The task now is to match the scale of the science with the scale of action, supporting communities already on the frontline of climate impacts while accelerating the transition away from coal, oil and gas to bring our climate back into balance."