Explainer-COP29: What is the latest science on climate change?

A beached whale installation by the Belgian art collective 'Captain Boomer' lies on embankment during the United Nations climate change conference COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 11, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov

BAKU (Reuters) - This year's U.N. climate summit - COP29 - is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change.

The last global scientific consensus on climate change was released in 2021 through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, however scientists say that evidence shows global warming and its impacts are unfolding faster than expected.