The context in which COP29 begins in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 11 is critical but not hopeless.
A UN climate report released just days before the Conference confirmed that global average temperature rise is approaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, which would put the world on course for a catastrophic rise of 2.6-3.1°C this century, unless there are immediate and major cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.
A failure to act will lead to increasingly frequent and dangerous extreme weather events.
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