Greenhouse gas concentrations higher than in all of human civilisation

A chemist's thermometer showing a temperature of 44 degrees during a heatwave

Now playing Next

Climate Now: How can we survive the heatwaves to come?

Gaza rescuers retrieve casualties from rubble after Israeli strike on Khan Yunis, Dec. 1, 2023

Now playing Next

WATCH: Gaza rescuers retrieve casualties from rubble after Israeli strike on Khan Yunis

Latest news bulletin | December 3rd – Morning

Now playing Next

Latest news bulletin | December 3rd – Morning

France's President Emmanuel Macron leaves the venue for bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai, 1 December 2023.

Now playing Next

COP28: World Climate Action Summit kicks off in Dubai

COP28 gets underway in Dubai

Now playing Next

UN climate conference COP28 gets underway in Dubai

Snow covered cars are parked after heavy snow fall in Munich, Germany

Now playing Next

Heavy snowfall in southern Germany cold snap continues

Mount Etna erupts near Catania on Sicily, December 1st 2023

Now playing Next

Watch: Etna erupts again, sending hot lava down its snowy slopes

Gaza rescuers retrieve casualties from rubble after Israeli strike on Khan Yunis, Dec. 1, 2023

Now playing Next

WATCH: Gaza rescuers retrieve casualties from rubble after Israeli strike on Khan Yunis

Ukrainian soldiers walks at the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021.

Now playing Next

Rats the size of AK-47s and grimy mud: Winter comes to Ukraine war

Stockholm receives first heavy snowfall of the season

Now playing Next

European capitals are covered with snow for first time this winter

People mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in an airstrike on Sunday in Khan Yunis, Gaza

Now playing Next

Israel Hamas war: Israel widens evacuation orders as strikes intensify

German tourist fatally stabbed in Paris in suspected terrorist attack

Now playing Next

German tourist fatally stabbed in Paris in suspected terrorist attack

Reiner Knizia

Now playing Next

Is this the world’s most prolific board game creator?

FILE - Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday Jan. 16, 2021.

Now playing Next

Ukraine ex-president planned meeting with Orban, Kyiv says

Updated: 15/11/2022 - 19:24

Greenhouse gas concentrations higher than in all of human civilisation

Following the warmest October on record and with greenhouse gas concentrations higher than they've ever been, COP27 experts assess the state of the Earth's climate.

Read full article

More from Climate Now

Can Europe's greatest store of climate data help us better predict our future?

Now playing Next

Predicting Europe's climate future by digging into the past

Scientists in Sweden are tracking sources of methane, a climate-warming gas with no colour or smell

Now playing Next

Meet the Swedish scientists hoping to solve Earth's methane mystery

Can we save World Heritage Sites from climate change ?

Now playing Next

Can this 300-year-old landscape survive another 300 years?

Heatwave tips from Athens: Cool routes app, new pocket parks and renovating a Roman aqueduct

Now playing Next

How is Athens adapting to rising temperatures?

Latest video

Palestinians flee from east to west of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, during the ongoing Israeli bombardment, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023

Now playing Next

As Israel pounds Gaza the US says too many civilians are being killed

FILE - A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad, Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, USA

Now playing Next

United Arab Emirates

COP28: 50 oil companies pledge to almost end methane emissions by 2030

A fish vendor passes by a partially collapsed multipurpose covered court in Tagbina town, Agusan del Sur, southern Philippines on Sunday Dec. 3, 2023.

Now playing Next

Powerful 7.6 scale quake off Mindanao island in the southern Philippines

Mens medallist day one

Now playing Next

Tokyo Judo Grand Slam kicks off in style to close the 2023 season

FILE- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers from inside a glass cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 20, 2021

Now playing Next

Russia's jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny faces more charges

A wounded Palestinian child is carried into the Nasser Hospital following an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023.

Now playing Next

UNICEF: Gaza Strip most dangerous place in the world for children

Lisbon tree lighting ceremony, Dec 1, 2023

Now playing Next

WATCH: Christmas season gets underway in Lisbon with tree lighting ceremony

Fisayo-Bambi and Mago Hasfa

Now playing Next

The Ugandan literacy specialist making a difference for disadvantaged children

Palestinians flee from their neighbourhood in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, during the ongoing Israeli bombardment, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023.

Now playing Next

Israel-Hamas war: Bombing of Gaza intensifies as death toll grows

Mariinsky Theatre's Artistic Director Valery Gergiev

Now playing Next

Pro-Kremlin maestro Valery Gergiev, director of Mariinsky Theatre, put in charge of Bolshoi

The shirt worn in the 2022 World Cup final match between Argentina and France on December 18, 2022, is displayed during a Sotheby's auction media preview.

Now playing Next

Will Messi's World Cup Final shirt break the all-time auction record?

Méabh Mc Mahon with Rebecca Christie, Pedro Marques and

Now playing Next

Brussels, my love?

Brussels, my love? Why far-right movements are simmering across Europe

Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba interviewed on Euronews Serbia, December 1st 2023

Now playing Next

Speed up the accession process, Ukraine tells the EU

SPECA: Central Asia reaffirms its key role in international transport

Now playing Next

SPECA: Central Asia reaffirms its key role in international transport

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, speaks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Nov. 29, 2023.

Now playing Next

State of the Union: War fatigue, luggage sizes and anti-SLAPP deal

uuu

Now playing Next

What is fueling the spread of far-right politics in Ireland?