SINGAPORE – For the UN’s top climate science body, 2025 is a key year. This is the year global greenhouse gas emissions must start to fall and then decline rapidly to limit the severity of climate change.

Instead, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning planet-warming fossil fuels are predicted to reach another record in 2025, a study released on Nov 13 found.

Humanity is hurtling towards the key Paris Agreement temperature limit of 1.5 deg C above pre-industrial levels. And it will do so with just four more years of CO2 emissions at current levels, the authors said in their report, which was released during the ongoing