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Leave it to the central cooling guys
With a well-oiled plant supervision mechanism in place, there is a certain peace of mind that comes with the way they handle refrigerants, says Dr Rajendra Shende, former Director of UNEP
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its State of the Global Climate report, confirmed that 2024 was likely the first ever calendar year to be more than 1.5 degrees C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 degrees C above the 1850-1900 average. This is the warmest year in the 175-year observational record and, what more, signals that human civilisation is on the verge of failing to meet the 1.5 degrees C goal set by the Paris Agreement, 10 years ago.
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