(CNN) – The possibility to be The average temperature of the earth A critical turning point is increasingly being overcome, according to the world’s leading weather and climate organization.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Thursday that there is now a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature will temporarily reach 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels in at least one of the next five years.

He also said that the chances of reaching this threshold increased over time.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has identified 1.5 ° C as a major turning point beyond which the risks of severe droughts, wildfires, floods and food shortages outpace.

“These are more than just statistics,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement. “Rising temperatures mean more melting ice, rising sea levels, more heat waves and other extreme weather events, and greater impacts on food security, health, the environment and sustainable development,” he said.

To sign on Paris AgreementCountries around the world agreed to limit global warming to less than two degrees above pre-industrial levels. Even better, as stated in the agreement, is to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees.

A call for urgent action against climate change

However, the world is approaching a tipping point. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the average annual temperature is likely to be at least one degree higher than pre-industrial levels in the next five years, and is likely to be in the range from 0.9 to 1.8 degrees above.

The organization added that 2020 was one of the three hottest years on record and that the global average temperature was 1.2 degrees above the pre-industrial baseline.

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a 90% chance that at least one of the years between 2021 and 2025 will be the hottest on record, surpassing the year 2016 in ranking, according to the annual to decimal climate update (annual global climate update to the decade )) Issued by the UK Met Office, which is the main focus of WMO for such forecasts

This is another reason to take urgent action against climate change, according to Thales.

“We are tangibly and relentlessly close to the lower (warming) target of the Paris Agreement on climate change,” he said. “The world needs to accelerate commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that to achieve the Paris target, global greenhouse gas emissions must reach net zero by 2050. Many countries have pledged to be carbon neutral by mid-century and many major economies – including United StateAnd the UK and Canada – recently updated their short-term emissions-cutting targets.

However, the United Nations warned against this Details of how they plan to get there They are still lazy.