But annual production of greenhouse gases continued to increase, despite the global agreement to take action. Since 2015, the project has tracked the dwindling amount of carbon dioxide humanity can afford to emit if it hopes to meet the Paris agreement’s aim of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.īack then the quota was 903 gigatons - about 20 years worth of emissions. The annual report is a joint project of researchers from 70 institutions on five continents. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images) Its findings, which draw upon atmospheric measurements, energy statistics and deforestation models, among other data, underscore just how far humanity must go to shift course on global warming.įILE - Smoke rises from a coal-powered power station in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province on November 3, 2021.

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