The latest United Nations Climate Report released on Monday is a code red for humanity.
So says the United Nations Secretary-General reacting to the findings of the benchmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report that affirmed unequivocally that human influence had warmed the earth’s atmosphere contributing to widespread and rapid changes to the oceans and land among other impacts.
The report has warned that global warming is dangerously close to being out of control with severe implications for the planet.
Under all scenarios presented in the report, the global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century, exceeding the 1.5 Degrees Celsius limit above pre-industrial levels set in the Paris Climate Change Accord.
Under each of the five scenarios, the world would cross that mark in the mid-2030s, earlier than previous estimates. UN Chief, Antonio Guterres, warned that the alarm bells were deafening and the evidence irrefutable that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking the planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.
He warned that the viability of our societies depended on leaders from government, business, and civil society uniting behind policies to limit the temperature rise.
#ClimateChange is widespread, rapid, & intensifying – #IPCC
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region & across the whole climate system, says the IPCC’s latest #ClimateReport, released today.
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➡️ https://t.co/uU8bb4inBB pic.twitter.com/e3oAgQJQWe— IPCC (@IPCC_CH) August 9, 2021
