This year is set to be the second hottest on record after 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organization and other data sources. According to Climate Action Tracker, which measures government climate action against what is needed to limit global temperature rise, current policies put the world on track to a 2.9C temperature rise this century. We can and must recover better together, he added. Instead, nations would need to roughly triple their current emissions-cutting pledges to limit the Earths warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average  a central aim of the Paris climate agreement. Last year saw the highest global emissions ever recorded, at 59 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, a category that includes not only the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, but also methane and other climate-warming agents.
Last year was the 4th hottest on record.
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Last year was the 4th hottest on record .
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