India, Feb. 8 -- While the world has not yet breached the Paris Agreement target (an average global temperature over decades), it is moving ever closer to it

The global climate emergency has broken two more records if scientists from the European Union (EU) are to be believed. Not only has the world experienced a 12-month period where temperatures have exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (degC), but January 2024 has been the hottest January on record, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Global leaders meeting in the French capital during the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), had agreed to try and prevent global warming from exceeding 1.5degC.

While th...