A United Nations-led plan to tackle climate change by radically improving the way heat-trapping atmospheric pollutants are measured all over the planet is being given serious consideration by governments and the international scientific community, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday.

According to the weather agency, the plan involves creating a network of ground-based measurement stations that can verify worrying air quality data that's been flagged by satellites or airplanes, potentially in the next five years.

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