Every measure of climate change is going in the wrong direction, and some of them faster than ever before, a vast new paper has warned. Emissions should be falling, but are still rising.

The study - which takes a laser focus on climate change in the 2020s, a critical decade to stop the worst damage - finds all 10 measures are going in the wrong direction.

And most of them are doing so at a faster rate.

The findings are “unprecedented” but “unsurprising”, given the world continues to pump record levels of planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.

“We see a clear and consistent picture that things are getting worse,” said lead author Professor Piers Forster.