Kennedy, John and Trewin, Blair and Betts, Richard and Thorne, Peter and Foster, Piers and Siegmund, Peter and Ziese, Markus and Mishra, Sulagna and Uhlenbrook, Stefan and Alvar-Beltran, Jorge and Gialletti, Arianna and Birner, Jana and Reusing, Rosi-Selam and du Parc, Elisabeth and Anzellini, Vicente and Ponserre, Sylvain and Grasso, Veronica and Msemo, Nakiete and Cuellar Vargas, Daniela and Bastani, Hamid and Boscolo, Roberta and Naran, Baysa (2024) State of the Climate 2024. Update for COP29. Technical Report. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is proud to be a sponsor of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and to be able to support the production of this report. WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations and is its authoritative voice for weather, water and climate. It sponsors and implements an integrated suite of programmes which cover all aspects of climate research, observations, assessment, modelling and services. The WMO has produced a State of the Global Climate report every year since 1993 to provide an annual summary and update of key climate indicators. These reports complement the more detailed, less frequent synthesis provided by the IPCC’s Assessment Reports. Since 2016 WMO has also been reporting preliminary findings on key climate indicators to inform the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) before the end of each year. In July 2024, an international workshop organized by WMO and kindly hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst in Germany, agreed to a more condensed format, focusing on key messages for policymakers' needs at COP. The State of the Climate Update 2024 for COP29 highlights preliminary headline climate indicators consolidating the most up-to-date datasets available at the time of writing, along with examples of extreme events and progress in climate actions. The headlines in the State of the Climate Update 2024 give cause for great concern. Greenhouse gas concentrations continue to steadily rise, driving further long-term temperature increases, highlighting the rapid changes in our climate system in the space of a single generation. We are on track for 2024 to be the hottest year on record joining 2023 as the two hottest years on record. Ocean heat content values continued an upward trend in 2023 and 2024, contributing to other changes in the climate system such as sea level rise and fueling intense storms. Antarctic and Arctic sea ice extent in 2024 have both been well below average. The record-breaking rainfall and flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, deadly heat, relentless drought and raging wildfires that we have seen in different parts of the world this year are unfortunately our new reality and a foretaste of our future. We must continue to strive to limit warming as much as possible, recognizing that staying well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C remains critical to significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. At the same time, we need to step up support for climate change adaptation through climate services and early warnings.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Additional Information:	Quality Control & Review: Chris Hewitt (WMO), Omar Baddour (WMO), Saeed Vazifehkhah (WMO), Jessica Blunden (NOAA), Awatif Ebrahim (EMA), John Kennedy (WMO), Renata Libonati (IGEO/UFRJ), Atsushi Minami (JMA), Alvaro Silva (IPMA), Serhat Şensoy (DMİ), Blair Trewin (BOM), Freja Vamborg (ECMWF), Markus Ziese (DWD), Robert Vautard (IPCC
Keywords:	state of the climate services, early warning for all , climate monitoring
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS
Item ID:	19179
Depositing User:	IR Editor
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2024 15:48
Publisher:	World Meteorological Organization
Funders:	World Meteorological Organisation
URI:	Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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