The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) signalled the highest alarm level in the face of the speed of climate change, at the opening of a major international conference in Azerbaijan on Monday. The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku is to address ways to limit global warming and make new financial commitments to poor countries impacted by heatwaves, storms and floods that have become more frequent due to global warming. The WMO signalled the urgency of this mission as it presented its 2024 global temperatures report. The average global temperature came in at a record 1.54 degrees Ce…