The report found 2024 is likely to be the first year more than 1.5C hotter than before the Industrial Revolution, a level of warming that has alarmed scientists.
World leaders promised to stop the planet from heating 1.5C by the end of the century but are on track to heat it by roughly double that.
This inevitably pushes our ability to respond to extreme events and adapt to a warmer world to the absolute limit, said Carlo Buontempo, the director of Copernicus.
Scientists say a single year above the threshold does not mean they have missed the target, but warn that it will force more people and ecosystems to the brink of survival.
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