World to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027

London, UK – responding to a new report by the World Meteorological Organisation predicting new record temperatures during next five years, Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK, said:

“This report must be a rallying cry to intensify global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. While these findings don’t mean we will permanently exceed the 1.5C Paris agreement target, every tenth of a degree of warming we can avoid will reduce the chances of extreme weather across the world and its human cost.

“For too long, governments have dithered while allowing the fossil fuel and industrial food industries to reap obscene profits from their destruction of our climate. It is time for united international action to put a stop to their profiteering before it is too late.”