Warning that sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, particularly around vulnerable Pacific island nations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a fresh climate SOS to the world. His alert coincides with a new report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which warns that climate change threatens the very existence of the Pacific archipelagos.
The WMO’s State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 report, released Monday, stated that "2023 was substantially warmer than the previous several years" in the region, which is "extremely prone to disasters associated with hydrometeorological hazards, especially storms and floods."
