US EditionHow Countries Can Be Held Responsible for Staying Within New Legal Climate Target of 1.5°C
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How countries can be held responsible for staying within new legal climate target of 1.5°C
PeopleImages/ShutterstockGlobal emissions need to peak this year to stay within 1.5°C of global temperature rise since pre-industrial levels. This means that starting now, countries need to emit less greenhouse gas. Emissions also need to be cut in half by 2030 to prevent the worst effects of climate change. For many nations, 1.5°C is a benchmark for survival. At that temperature, small island states in particular risk becoming uninhabitable due…
The world's failure to keep its commitment to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius from the Paris Agreement is a moral failure and deadly negligence, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said today in his address to the leaders' summit ahead of the UN climate conference in Belem (COP30).
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, and the Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, warned of the urgency to face the climate crisis with “political courage” and “concrete measures”. The message was part of the opening speeches of the leaders' summit that kicks off the 30th United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was blunt in his speech at a summit on the eve of the climate conference that opens in Belém on Monday. He accused the world of moral and fatal negligence in failing to meet the Paris Agreement's goal of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius since the industrial revolution. Guterres said that target was a red line for a habitable planet. "Every fraction of a degree above the target leads to more hunger, …
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