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COP28 Director General Majid Al Suwaidi had said Saturday that along with the operationalisation of the loss and damage fund, the pledges on renewables and methane had already made this climate summit a success.
Progress on climate adaptation is slowing, while the world is heading for a temperature rise far above the global average temperature, say reports recently released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
As countries try to hammer out a response to climate change at the COP28 talks in Dubai, here are some key figures about how fossil fuels have warmed our world. - Methane -
Methane is the second largest contributor to global warming after CO2, and is responsible for around 30 percent of the rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution, according to UNEP.
Around 40 percent of human-driven methane emissions are from agriculture which includes gas burped out by livestock such as