The year 2023 has entered the record books as the warmest on record, with forecasts suggesting it could be the warmest in the last 100,000 years, according to a report by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Regions such as Europe, North America and China have witnessed unprecedented heat waves, attributing the rise in temperatures to a culmination of factors, primarily escalating levels of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gas emissions played a major role in pushing 2023 to first place, raising the average global temperature to 14.98 degrees Celsius. This represented an increase of 0.17 degrees Celsius compared to the previous highest annual average in 2016, and notably, the planet was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average (1850-1900). This temperature increase in 2023 came dangerously close to the 1.5 degree Celsius limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.