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Health and environment. 2024 in climate change, Paris Agreement. The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the warmest calendar year since records began in 1850, with an average global temperature reaching 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the 1.5°C warming benchmark set by the Paris Agreement for the first time.
By mid-January 2022, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry's intelligence assessment estimated that the Russians had almost completed a military buildup on the Ukrainian border, amassing 127,000 troops in the region (of which 106,000 were Russian Armed Forces land group forces and the remaining being sea and air forces) and further supporting more than ...
Droupadi Murmu (from 25 July 2022) Vice-President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha: Venkaiah Naidu (till 11 August 2022) Jagdeep Dhankhar (from 11 August 2022) Prime Minister of India: Narendra Modi: Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Om Birla: Chief Justice of India: N. V. Ramana (till 28 August 2022) Uday Umesh Lalit (28 August 2022 - 8 November 2022)
Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. McDonald's profits fall by 46% and its revenue falls by 3% in Q2 2022 following the company's exit from Russia. (The Washington Post) Disasters and accidents. 2022 Luzon earthquake. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Luzon, Philippines, killing four people and injuring over 100 others.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that it was a "Russian-made missile" and summons the Russian ambassador to provide an explanation. November 2022 nationwide missile strikes on Ukraine. Russian missiles strike several cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, causing "critical" damage to energy facilities. (The Guardian)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine states that the country has "installed naval mines in the exercise of our right to self-defence". 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions. The Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of killing two Congolese children in a rocket attack.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis releases data showing that in the first quarter of 2022 GDP declined at an annual rate of 1.4%, marking the first time GDP shrank since the second quarter of 2020. [126] [127] [128] April 29 – Casey White prison escape: Assisted by prison guard Vicky White (no relation), both escape the Lauderdale County jail ...
The 2022 projections from the United Nations Population Division (chart #1) show that annual world population growth peaked at 2.3% per year in 1963, has since dropped to 0.9% in 2023, equivalent to about 74 million people each year, and could drop even further to minus 0.1% by 2100. [4]