First modification:
The report comes amid rising global fuel prices and rising inflation in many countries that has led some world leaders to not step up their efforts to create cleaner energy, some saying “these renewables they will only increase the overall cost of living for the poorest.”
“Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready.” This was the warning that the United Nations climate panel launched this Monday, February 28, in a report that points out the drastic changes that humanity will be subjected to if the environmental outlook does not improve.
The study carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, for its acronym in English) details the latest global consensus on climate science and calls for strong action to be taken on issues of food supply, fresh water, protection from catastrophes such as tidal storms and forest fires.
“Climate change and extreme weather events are already affecting the global economy and, if left unchecked, will push millions more into poverty while raising food prices and disrupting trade and labor markets. explained the UN climate experts, who also stated that there is “a window of opportunity that is short and closing quickly to ensure a livable and sustainable future for all.”
The researchers chose not to quantify the impact in terms of global production, but they did make it clear that the effects of climate change are going faster than anticipated, something that worsens consecutively with the increase in global temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions. carbon.
If nothing is done to combat rising temperatures, the report notes that stress from global warming would make farm work less productive, forcing employees to seek other, lower-pressure jobs.
“Economic damage from climate change has been detected in sectors exposed to the environment, with regional effects in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy and tourism and through outdoor labor productivity. Individual livelihoods are have been affected by changes in agricultural productivity, impacts on human health and food security, destruction of housing and infrastructure, and loss of property and income, with adverse effects on social and gender equity,” says the summary of the report .
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the report “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of the failure of climate leadership,” warning that “it is time to take urgent action against climate change.”
“Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a ferocious march to destruction,” Guterres said in a recorded speech on Monday, February 28.
Mitigation actions
The publication of the report, just three months after world leaders met at the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, COP 26, raised to an “urgent” level the efforts that must be taken to contain global warming within the 1.5 degrees.
“Adaptation is not a get-out-of-jail card. Adaptation has limits,” said Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and co-author of the report. “We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions because if we don’t, things are going to get very bad.”
The report proposes that, although governments should focus their efforts on curbing their carbon emissions, they can also work on adapting humanity to live in a warmer world with initiatives that, although they require high investment, can make zones a reality. of cooling to help people in heat waves, new infrastructure for coastal communities or total relocation of those affected by high temperatures.
Significant regional variation in the aggregate economic damages from climate change is projected with economic damages estimated per capita for developing countries often higher as a fraction of income.
Social justice
To achieve the adaptation of societies, the report suggests that the changes that are developed are inclusive and do not leave out indigenous populations, minorities, and people with limited resources.
“That people living in developing countries in Africa, South Asia and small island nations be taken into account, but also those marginalized communities in rich nations such as the United States,” the UN text pointed out.
“It is the poor who are most vulnerable,” said Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at the New School in New York and one of the 270 authors of the report.
If this inclusive economic approach does not take place, the scientific paper warns that in poor African countries – to give an example – climate change is expected to push another 40 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.
According to Christopher Trisos, a co-author of the report and a climate risk researcher at the University of Cape Town, “uprooting invasive trees that deplete water supplies can go a long way toward helping vulnerable populations.”
However, the authors warned that time is running out to carry out the necessary transformations throughout society and called for governments to take immediate action under the climate change framework, since “the decisions that society makes in the next decade will mark the path of the climate in the future.”
With AP and Routers
First modification:
The report comes amid rising global fuel prices and rising inflation in many countries that has led some world leaders to not step up their efforts to create cleaner energy, some saying “these renewables they will only increase the overall cost of living for the poorest.”
“Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready.” This was the warning that the United Nations climate panel launched this Monday, February 28, in a report that points out the drastic changes that humanity will be subjected to if the environmental outlook does not improve.
The study carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, for its acronym in English) details the latest global consensus on climate science and calls for strong action to be taken on issues of food supply, fresh water, protection from catastrophes such as tidal storms and forest fires.
“Climate change and extreme weather events are already affecting the global economy and, if left unchecked, will push millions more into poverty while raising food prices and disrupting trade and labor markets. explained the UN climate experts, who also stated that there is “a window of opportunity that is short and closing quickly to ensure a livable and sustainable future for all.”
The researchers chose not to quantify the impact in terms of global production, but they did make it clear that the effects of climate change are going faster than anticipated, something that worsens consecutively with the increase in global temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions. carbon.
If nothing is done to combat rising temperatures, the report notes that stress from global warming would make farm work less productive, forcing employees to seek other, lower-pressure jobs.
“Economic damage from climate change has been detected in sectors exposed to the environment, with regional effects in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy and tourism and through outdoor labor productivity. Individual livelihoods are have been affected by changes in agricultural productivity, impacts on human health and food security, destruction of housing and infrastructure, and loss of property and income, with adverse effects on social and gender equity,” says the summary of the report .
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the report “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of the failure of climate leadership,” warning that “it is time to take urgent action against climate change.”
“Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a ferocious march to destruction,” Guterres said in a recorded speech on Monday, February 28.
Mitigation actions
The publication of the report, just three months after world leaders met at the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, COP 26, raised to an “urgent” level the efforts that must be taken to contain global warming within the 1.5 degrees.
“Adaptation is not a get-out-of-jail card. Adaptation has limits,” said Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and co-author of the report. “We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions because if we don’t, things are going to get very bad.”
The report proposes that, although governments should focus their efforts on curbing their carbon emissions, they can also work on adapting humanity to live in a warmer world with initiatives that, although they require high investment, can make zones a reality. of cooling to help people in heat waves, new infrastructure for coastal communities or total relocation of those affected by high temperatures.
Significant regional variation in the aggregate economic damages from climate change is projected with economic damages estimated per capita for developing countries often higher as a fraction of income.
Social justice
To achieve the adaptation of societies, the report suggests that the changes that are developed are inclusive and do not leave out indigenous populations, minorities, and people with limited resources.
“That people living in developing countries in Africa, South Asia and small island nations be taken into account, but also those marginalized communities in rich nations such as the United States,” the UN text pointed out.
“It is the poor who are most vulnerable,” said Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at the New School in New York and one of the 270 authors of the report.
If this inclusive economic approach does not take place, the scientific paper warns that in poor African countries – to give an example – climate change is expected to push another 40 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.
According to Christopher Trisos, a co-author of the report and a climate risk researcher at the University of Cape Town, “uprooting invasive trees that deplete water supplies can go a long way toward helping vulnerable populations.”
However, the authors warned that time is running out to carry out the necessary transformations throughout society and called for governments to take immediate action under the climate change framework, since “the decisions that society makes in the next decade will mark the path of the climate in the future.”
With AP and Routers
First modification:
The report comes amid rising global fuel prices and rising inflation in many countries that has led some world leaders to not step up their efforts to create cleaner energy, some saying “these renewables they will only increase the overall cost of living for the poorest.”
“Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready.” This was the warning that the United Nations climate panel launched this Monday, February 28, in a report that points out the drastic changes that humanity will be subjected to if the environmental outlook does not improve.
The study carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, for its acronym in English) details the latest global consensus on climate science and calls for strong action to be taken on issues of food supply, fresh water, protection from catastrophes such as tidal storms and forest fires.
“Climate change and extreme weather events are already affecting the global economy and, if left unchecked, will push millions more into poverty while raising food prices and disrupting trade and labor markets. explained the UN climate experts, who also stated that there is “a window of opportunity that is short and closing quickly to ensure a livable and sustainable future for all.”
The researchers chose not to quantify the impact in terms of global production, but they did make it clear that the effects of climate change are going faster than anticipated, something that worsens consecutively with the increase in global temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions. carbon.
If nothing is done to combat rising temperatures, the report notes that stress from global warming would make farm work less productive, forcing employees to seek other, lower-pressure jobs.
“Economic damage from climate change has been detected in sectors exposed to the environment, with regional effects in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy and tourism and through outdoor labor productivity. Individual livelihoods are have been affected by changes in agricultural productivity, impacts on human health and food security, destruction of housing and infrastructure, and loss of property and income, with adverse effects on social and gender equity,” says the summary of the report .
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the report “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of the failure of climate leadership,” warning that “it is time to take urgent action against climate change.”
“Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a ferocious march to destruction,” Guterres said in a recorded speech on Monday, February 28.
Mitigation actions
The publication of the report, just three months after world leaders met at the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, COP 26, raised to an “urgent” level the efforts that must be taken to contain global warming within the 1.5 degrees.
“Adaptation is not a get-out-of-jail card. Adaptation has limits,” said Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and co-author of the report. “We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions because if we don’t, things are going to get very bad.”
The report proposes that, although governments should focus their efforts on curbing their carbon emissions, they can also work on adapting humanity to live in a warmer world with initiatives that, although they require high investment, can make zones a reality. of cooling to help people in heat waves, new infrastructure for coastal communities or total relocation of those affected by high temperatures.
Significant regional variation in the aggregate economic damages from climate change is projected with economic damages estimated per capita for developing countries often higher as a fraction of income.
Social justice
To achieve the adaptation of societies, the report suggests that the changes that are developed are inclusive and do not leave out indigenous populations, minorities, and people with limited resources.
“That people living in developing countries in Africa, South Asia and small island nations be taken into account, but also those marginalized communities in rich nations such as the United States,” the UN text pointed out.
“It is the poor who are most vulnerable,” said Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at the New School in New York and one of the 270 authors of the report.
If this inclusive economic approach does not take place, the scientific paper warns that in poor African countries – to give an example – climate change is expected to push another 40 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.
According to Christopher Trisos, a co-author of the report and a climate risk researcher at the University of Cape Town, “uprooting invasive trees that deplete water supplies can go a long way toward helping vulnerable populations.”
However, the authors warned that time is running out to carry out the necessary transformations throughout society and called for governments to take immediate action under the climate change framework, since “the decisions that society makes in the next decade will mark the path of the climate in the future.”
With AP and Routers
First modification:
The report comes amid rising global fuel prices and rising inflation in many countries that has led some world leaders to not step up their efforts to create cleaner energy, some saying “these renewables they will only increase the overall cost of living for the poorest.”
“Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready.” This was the warning that the United Nations climate panel launched this Monday, February 28, in a report that points out the drastic changes that humanity will be subjected to if the environmental outlook does not improve.
The study carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, for its acronym in English) details the latest global consensus on climate science and calls for strong action to be taken on issues of food supply, fresh water, protection from catastrophes such as tidal storms and forest fires.
“Climate change and extreme weather events are already affecting the global economy and, if left unchecked, will push millions more into poverty while raising food prices and disrupting trade and labor markets. explained the UN climate experts, who also stated that there is “a window of opportunity that is short and closing quickly to ensure a livable and sustainable future for all.”
The researchers chose not to quantify the impact in terms of global production, but they did make it clear that the effects of climate change are going faster than anticipated, something that worsens consecutively with the increase in global temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions. carbon.
If nothing is done to combat rising temperatures, the report notes that stress from global warming would make farm work less productive, forcing employees to seek other, lower-pressure jobs.
“Economic damage from climate change has been detected in sectors exposed to the environment, with regional effects in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy and tourism and through outdoor labor productivity. Individual livelihoods are have been affected by changes in agricultural productivity, impacts on human health and food security, destruction of housing and infrastructure, and loss of property and income, with adverse effects on social and gender equity,” says the summary of the report .
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the report “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of the failure of climate leadership,” warning that “it is time to take urgent action against climate change.”
“Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a ferocious march to destruction,” Guterres said in a recorded speech on Monday, February 28.
Mitigation actions
The publication of the report, just three months after world leaders met at the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, COP 26, raised to an “urgent” level the efforts that must be taken to contain global warming within the 1.5 degrees.
“Adaptation is not a get-out-of-jail card. Adaptation has limits,” said Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and co-author of the report. “We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions because if we don’t, things are going to get very bad.”
The report proposes that, although governments should focus their efforts on curbing their carbon emissions, they can also work on adapting humanity to live in a warmer world with initiatives that, although they require high investment, can make zones a reality. of cooling to help people in heat waves, new infrastructure for coastal communities or total relocation of those affected by high temperatures.
Significant regional variation in the aggregate economic damages from climate change is projected with economic damages estimated per capita for developing countries often higher as a fraction of income.
Social justice
To achieve the adaptation of societies, the report suggests that the changes that are developed are inclusive and do not leave out indigenous populations, minorities, and people with limited resources.
“That people living in developing countries in Africa, South Asia and small island nations be taken into account, but also those marginalized communities in rich nations such as the United States,” the UN text pointed out.
“It is the poor who are most vulnerable,” said Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at the New School in New York and one of the 270 authors of the report.
If this inclusive economic approach does not take place, the scientific paper warns that in poor African countries – to give an example – climate change is expected to push another 40 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.
According to Christopher Trisos, a co-author of the report and a climate risk researcher at the University of Cape Town, “uprooting invasive trees that deplete water supplies can go a long way toward helping vulnerable populations.”
However, the authors warned that time is running out to carry out the necessary transformations throughout society and called for governments to take immediate action under the climate change framework, since “the decisions that society makes in the next decade will mark the path of the climate in the future.”
With AP and Routers