The concentration of greenhouse gases will remain high this year, is anticipated.
overall concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas responsible for climate change, reached a record high in 2015, and will continue to have new peaks for several generations, indicated today a report of the United Nations.
The annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that the average overall concentration of CO2 for the entire 2015 was higher than the maximum symbolic 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time and will remain above that level throughout 2016.
The increase in CO2 levels was due in part to the weather phenomenon El Niño, which began in 2015, and caused droughts in tropical regions, which reduced the capacity of forests and oceans to absorb CO2.
This discovery comes after world leaders adopted the climate agreement in Paris at the end of 2015, generating “a new era of optimism and climate action”, said Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO.
“But (in 2015) will also make history by mark a new era in the reality of climate change with concentrations record of greenhouse gases”, added Taalas.
Under the climate agreement of Paris, which shall enter into force on the 4th of November, the increase in global temperature should be below two degrees Celsius in comparison with preindustrial levels.
Since the beginning of industrialization human activities have increased the level of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels higher than nature can absorb.
The CO2, which is produced by burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas, it contributes in a proportion of 76 per cent to the greenhouse effect.
The concentration of global carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas responsible for climate change, reached a record high in 2015, and will continue to have new peaks for several generations, indicated today a report of the Organization of the United Nations (UN).
The annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that the average overall concentration of CO2 for the entire 2015 was higher than the maximum symbolic 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time and will remain above that level throughout 2016.
The increase in CO2 levels was due in part to the weather phenomenon El Niño, which began in 2015, and caused droughts in tropical regions, which reduced the capacity of forests and oceans to absorb CO2.
This discovery comes after world leaders adopted the climate agreement in Paris at the end of 2015, generating “a new era of optimism and climate action,” said Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the WMO.
“But (in 2015) will also make history by mark a new era in the reality of climate change with concentrations record of greenhouse gases”, added Taalas.
Under the climate agreement of Paris, which shall enter into force on the 4th of November, the increase in global temperature should be below two degrees Celsius in comparison with preindustrial levels.
Since the beginning of industrialization human activities have increased the level of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels higher than nature can absorb.
The CO2, which is produced by burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas, it contributes in a proportion of 76 per cent to greenhouse gas emissions. (DPA)
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