The heating up of the Earth is just the beginning of the devastating effects of wider climate change. [...] Under the third meeting of the COP Despite the negative reputation GHGs have garnered, the absence of these gases would lead to the Earth freezing, as they play a crucial role in retaining heat within the atmosphere. [...] about the less-than-desired achieve- COP28 highlighted the findings of ments in mitigating climate change the first round of stock-taking of what through effective actions taken by the was pledged in the Paris Agreement. [...] The phase- The moral of this discussion is down of coal-powered electricity was that the danger to the globe posed a subject of intense debate since de- by warming and the resulting climate change has not been reduced as was wished and pledged in many of the ear-lier accords. [...] The warming of In its most recent report, the WMO the Earth is merely the has warned of a high likelihood (80%) that the average global temperature onset of devastating would exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in effects, encompassing at least one of the next five years.
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