2023-27 will be the hottest recorded 5 years: UN agency

Geneva: The United Nations warned on Wednesday that 2023-2027 will be the warmest recorded five-year period ever. The global organization cited that the effects of greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to push the temperatures higher, Agence France-Presse reported.

UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicts that global temperatures are to surpass the ambitious target set by the Paris climate accords. The same is expected in the next five years, and chances are two things, the organization said.

All of the ever-recorded hottest eight years were between 2015 and 2022, but the temperatures are forecast to increase further with accelerating climate change.

WMO said that there is a 98 per cent likelihood that at least one of the next five years and the five-year period as a whole will be the warmest on record.

In the Paris Agreement of 2015, countries agreed to keep global warming below two degrees Celcius above average levels measured from 1850 to 1900. Also, 1.5C if possible, but WNO believe that the temperatures will surpass that level during 2023-27, and there is a 66 per cent chance for the same.

As per records, the global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15 above the 1850-1900 average.

There is a warming El Nino which is expected to brew in the upcoming months, pushing the temperatures further high. This will have long-term repercussions on health, food security, water management and the environment.

WMO warns the world to be prepared.

Temperatures over land and sea globally started increasing in the 1960s.

Britain's Met Office national weather service said that global temperatures are steadily increasing, and the population is moving further and further away from the climate it was used to.