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Ernesto Rodríguez Camino

Senior State Meteorologist and president of Spanish Meteorological Association

For the past three years, an annual update of the main global climate change indicators has been published, following as closely as possible the methods used in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In fact, one of the main conclusions of this work is that, at the current rate of CO2 emissions, in just over three years, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will reach a level that will cause a 1.5 °C rise in temperature compared to pre-industrial levels.

This third update of the main indicators reinforces the AR6 message that, in order to limit warming to 1.5 °C, a rapid and far-reaching transition in energy, land use, urban and industrial systems will be required in the coming years. As this transition is not taking place with the necessary speed and scope, if we want to maintain the Paris Agreement's goal of not exceeding 1.5 °C of warming, it will be necessary in the future to remove CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. This ultimately constitutes an environmental burden that will be inherited by future generations, a burden caused by our inaction in the face of the causes of climate change, which are essentially the use of fossil fuels and deforestation.

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