Staying below 1.5C is the long-term goal of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty adopted by a majority of the world's countries in 2015. 'The climate story of 2023 is going to be about political backlash,' said David Callaway, a former USA TODAY editor-in-chief who runs Callaway Climate Insights, a newsletter that analyzes what the global business community is doing to mitigate climate risks. United Nations scientistsbelieve there's a 50% chance global temperatures will rise, at least temporarily, to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels between now and 2026. Russians escaping Putin's war on Ukraine: A new home – and a moral dilemmaĬlimate: 'It's going to get a lot hotter, and wetter' 'The fighting is likely to be at least as intense in 2023 as it was in 2022,' said Daniel DePetris, a fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank. 'Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will talk about their interest in ending the war through a peace settlement, but the two leaders will have vastly different interpretations on what that peace will look like and what it will take to get there.' There appears to be no end in sight to a war that was started by Russia, has displaced millions of Ukrainians across Europe and led the West to supply ever-more-heavy weapons to Kyiv. Still, there are some international story lines that are likely to dominate global headlines in 2023. Or that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich would be detained in Russia and accused of espionage. At the beginning of this year it seemed unlikely that large-scale protests would erupt in Israel. Something only a foolish person, armed with incomplete information, would attempt. These are pursuits that can often be, to use a British phrase, a mug's game. Unexpectedly high food and energy costs pushed up global inflation to 8.8% from 4.7% during the last 12 months, according to the International Monetary Fund. Or that China would – almost overnight, amid rare large-scale protests – rescind its zero-COVID policy.

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