This is according to the UN Environment Programme's annual report
The United Nations has renewed its warning that the effects of global warming will become "catastrophic" if urgent action isn't taken.
The Earth is on track to heat up by 3 degrees before the end of the century, according to the UN Environment Programme's annual report.
World leaders will meet in Dubai later this month for the UN's annual COP summit, with the aim of keeping the Paris Agreement warming limit of 1 point 5 degrees alive.
Climatologist and Professor Emeritus at Maynooth University, John Sweeney fears we are running out of time:

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