The United Nations today launched its call to action on extreme heat, a plan that urges to strengthen global action as the planet's thermometers mark a streak of record temperatures.

United Nations.- The plan, presented by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, warns of the consequences of the current situation and its implications for human life, economies, and societies.

In early June, Guterres called temperature behavior a highway to climate hell after Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service confirmed a streak of 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat.

Guterres called fossil fuel companies the godfathers of climate chaos and, for the first time, called on all countries to ban advertising of their fossil fuel products.

According to Copernicus statistics, every month since July 2023 have been at least 1.5 degrees warmer than the temperature before industrialization when humans began burning large amounts of fossil fuels.

The global average temperature over the past 12 months was 1.63 degrees Celsius above these pre-industrial levels.

In the view of experts and the UN, this is an alarming sign that contradicts the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which countries agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. (PL)