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Peter du ToitI'm the founder of FutureWork IQ where I spend my time assisting businesses to improve their climate literacy so as to understand the projected impacts from the expanding climate crisis and how to adapt their workplaces in the face of these impacts.

November 2022: “Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing. Global temperatures keep rising. And our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible. We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”—Antonio Guterres

March 2024: The latest data courtesy of Zachary Labe

Consequences (February 2024 data):

Feb. +1.77°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial average.

The ninth consecutive month (since June 2023) for which the monthly temperature has been the warmest on record for the corresponding month of the year.

+2ºC passed on four consecutive days 8-11 February.

The global-average temperature for the past twelve months (March 2023 – February 2024) is the highest on record. +1.56°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

Reminder of the requirements as set out in the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2023:

“The lack of stringent emission reductions means that the required emission cuts from now to 2030 have increased significantly. To reach emission levels consistent with a below 2°C pathway in 2030, the cuts required per year are now 5.3 per cent from 2024, reaching 8.7 per cent per year on average for the 1.5°C pathway. To compare, the fall in total global GHG emissions from 2019 to 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic was 4.7 per cent”

We are completely off track.