2023 is the hottest year on record

Rivers dried up this summer in France, nearly 60°C felt in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) a few weeks ago, fields transformed into dust in Argentina… The year 2023 is not over but already, it is the hottest year ever recorded on the planet: +1.46°C compared to the years 1850-1900, the pre-industrial era. “Last November was the warmest November on record globally. It is the sixth consecutive month in 2023 in which global temperatures reached record levels”explains Julien Nicolas, climatologist at the Copernicus climate change observatory.

Climate inaction could be very costly

Higher temperatures on the surface of the globe which lead to more and more extreme events. So many disasters which will cost the French economy dearly if nothing is done to limit global warming. In the most pessimistic scenarios, climate inaction could cost France several hundred billion euros per year.