Climate Change News: How Will The World Recover From Record High Greenhouse Gases?

Greenhouse gas levels reached a record in 2020, according to a report Monday from the World Meteorological Organization.

The United Nations warned that the world is extremely “off-target” from where it should be in terms of cutting emissions.

"We are way off track," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in the report. "We need to revisit our industrial, energy, and transport systems and whole way of life."

The WMO report shows that the carbon dioxide level has raised to 413.2 parts per million in 2020.

Current global emissions pledges by each country would still land emission levels at 16% higher in 2030 than they were in 2010, according to a separate analysis by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Climate change scientists have sought to reduce the numbers by 45%.

"Overshooting the temperature goals will lead to a destabilized world and endless suffering, especially among those who have contributed the least to the (greenhouse gas) emissions in the atmosphere," said Patricia Espinosa, the executive secretary of the UNFCCC.

"We are nowhere near where science says we should be," Espinosa said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters that he is worried that the necessary goals will not be able to be agreed upon.

"I am very worried because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need and it is touch and go, it is very, very difficult, but I think it can be done," he said.

“It’s going to be "very, very tough."

Experts have noted that for greenhouse gas concentration levels to be properly tackled, there would need to be an international agreement on serious and strict emission reduction goals.