Pakistan, May 30 -- The United Nations has issued a stark warning that there is a 70% chance the world's average temperature will exceed the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold during the period 2025 to 2029. This projection is part of the latest annual report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN responsible for climate and weather monitoring.

The report underscores the continuation of record-breaking heat trends witnessed in 2023 and 2024, signaling that the coming years will remain perilously hot. Ko Barrett, Deputy Secretary-General of WMO, stressed that the past decade includes the ten hottest years on record, and unfortunately, no significant cooling trend is expected in the near future. She highlighted...