An alarming United Nations report released Tuesday said global temperatures are on track to rise as much as 3.9°C by the end of the century, meaning only drastic and unprecedented emissions reductions can stave off the most devastating consequences of the climate crisis.
The annual Emissions Gap report (pdf) from the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) warns that nations’ commitments under the Paris climate accord—from which U.S. President Donald Trump began formally withdrawing this month—are not nearly sufficient to bring about the widespread changes needed to avert climate catastrophe.
“It is evident that incremental changes will not be enough and there is a need for rapid and transformational action,” the report states. “By necessity, this will see profound change in how energy, food, and other material-intensive services are demanded and provided by governments, businesses, and markets.”
According to the report, produced by an international team of leading scientists and researchers, greenhouse gas emissions must begin falling 7.6 percent annually by 2020 to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C by 2030.
“Our collective failure to act early and hard on climate change means we now must deliver deep cuts to emissions,” Inger Andersen, UNEP’s executive director, said in a statement. “This shows that countries simply cannot wait until the end of 2020, when new climate commitments are due, to step up action. They—and every city, region, business, and individual—need to act now.”
Anderson added that only “major transformations of economies and societies” will be enough.
“We need to catch up on the years in which we procrastinated,” Anderson said. “If we don’t do this, the 1.5°C goal will be out of reach before 2030.”
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“There has never been a more important time to listen to the science,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement Tuesday. “Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms, and pollution.”
May Boeve, chief executive of 350.org, said the new reports show “the science is screaming.”
“To world leaders we say: it is time to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry immediately,” Boeve said in a statement Tuesday. “Not a single new mine can be dug, not another pipeline built, not one more well dropped into the ocean. And we have to get to work immediately transitioning to sustainable renewable energy powered energy systems.”
“Across the globe, resistance to fossil fuels is rising, the climate strikes have shown the world that we are prepared to take action,” Boeve added. “Going forward people will keep up a steady drumbeat of actions, strikes, and protests that get louder and louder throughout 2020. To governments attending Cop25 in Madrid, the eyes of all future generations are upon you. The world has woken up to the reality of climate breakdown.”
Originally published by CommonDreams.org
Hahaha what a joke! A hoax so cleverly planned that the naive masses are completely convinced there’s such a thing as global warming. Cleverly dealt, Maurice Strong! All the idiots believe you.
Cloud cover is minimising effectively the real effects of GHG emissions. But World Dam Dynamics is directly heating up the earth and this is not recognised by the specialists. You drain off the world’s dams and the grids will collapse. And the nuclear reactors will melt and cause nuclear winter! Mumbai will be submerged much sooner than 2050 and floods are extreme globally right now. The temperature effects of dams are in the millions to billions of degrees kelvin order of HEAT INPUTS. People must prevail and stop modern civilization its tracks now. See all the articles in PERFECT DESIGNS/Ramaswami Ashok Kumar at blogspotdotcom. For example the link at
https://livingnormally.blogspot.com/2017/10/ignore-root-cause-get-root-shock-dams.html