UN agency: CO2 concentrations grew at record rate in 2016

GENEVA – The UN weather agency is warning that carbon-dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased at record-breaking speed last year.

World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas says rapid cuts to CO2 and other greenhouse gases are needed to avoid "dangerous temperature increases" by 2100 that would far surpass targets set in the Paris climate accord.

He says "we are actually moving in the wrong direction."