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The state of the climate in 2021
After the turbulent year of 2020, BBC Future takes stock on the state of the climate at the beginning of 2021.
From unprecedented wildfires across the US to the extraordinary heat of Siberia, the impacts of climate change were felt in every corner of the world in 2020.
- Isabelle Gerretsen
- BBC
We have come to a “moment of truth”, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his State of the Planet speech in December.
Covid and climate have brought us to a threshold.”
BBC Future brings you our round-up of where we are on climate change at the start of 2021, according…