2023 Set to Be Warmest Year on Record, Surpassing Paris Agreement Threshold

Current Policies Insufficient to Prevent Exceeding 1.5 C Threshold, Calls for Accelerated Climate Action

2023 is set to be the warmest year on record, with the global mean temperature for the past 11 months hitting a new high, according to European Union scientists.
The November report from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found the global mean temperature for January to November of this year was 1.46 degrees Celsius higher than the preindustrial average.
Current greenhouse gas emissions-reduction policies are far too weak to keep the planet from exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
The 2023 Global Change Outlook report by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change emphasizes the need for accelerated climate action to align with the 1.5 C goal.
Under the Paris Agreement's current trends scenario, the world is likely to exceed 2 C global climate warming by 2060, 2.8 C by 2100, and 3.8 C by 2150.