The medium temperature of the planet will come to 1.5º degrees more according to the pre-industrial era sometime between 2030 and 2035due to human activity, assured this Monday the members of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts about him Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations (UN) in his report that summarizes the last nine years of research on the subject.
They also agreed that the years now considered hotter “they will be among the freshest in a generation.”
Following this report, the UN Secretary General, Anthony Guterresasked the rich countries to advance their carbon neutrality targets “as close to 2040 as possible” instead of 2050.
Advancing that goal is essential to “defuse the climate bomb”Gutierres explained in a video message.
Climate change, a global alert
Humanity, which “walks on a thin layer of ice”, can still limit the global warming at a maximum of 1.5º C, but for this it is necessary “a breakthrough for climate action”.
All countries must contribute to this, “in all sectors” of activity, he requests.
Carbon neutrality is emit the same amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) to atmosphere than the one that is removed, using different techniques.
Developed countries, which benefited from decades of progress thanks to the consumption of fossil fuelsshould be the first to show an example, while the Developing countriesfor his part, should align on the date 2050 to reach the carbon neutralityGuterres specified.
The UN launches to save the water crisis
will address the world water crisisan ignored problem ignored for a long time, despite the billions of people who risk suffering from shortages or, conversely, excess the so-called “life blood” of the planet.
“This is the first time in 46 years that the world has come together around the issue of water. And it is now or never, it is the opportunity”declared Henk Ovink, special envoy for this topic by the Netherlands, co-organizers with Tajikistan of this conference on water that will be held from March 22 to 24.
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“We have broken the water cycle”laments Henk Ovik. “We are extracting too much water from the ground, we are contaminating the remaining waterand now there is so much water in the atmosphere that it is affecting our economies and our people because of climate change,” he said.
The result is too much resource on the one hand and not enough on the other, with floods and droughts increasing and multiplying around the world as a consequence of global warming caused by human activities.
Source: Ambito
