Giving Compass' Take:

• This report from the PBS News Hour examines recent dire reports about global carbon emissions, and why the urgency to act on climate change is greater than ever.

• What role can funders play in this effort? Where are resources needed most?

• Here's why we need to change our vocabulary a bit to fully take on climate change.

A new report by the Global Carbon Project says worldwide emissions grew by 1.6 percent last year, and are expected to rise another 2.7 percent this year. Carbon dioxide is the main gas that's driving climate change and the dangerous rise in global temperature.

The Paris accord hoped to limit that warming to just 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but this recent report seems to make that goal increasingly hard to reach.

Much of the increase in emissions is from growth in China and India. China is now the world's largest carbon emitter, followed by the U.S.

This report is just the latest in a series of very recent stark warnings about climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres put it this way: "We are in deep trouble. It is hard to overstate the urgency of our situation."

Watch the full report about the Paris Accord goals slipping out of reach at PBS News Hour.