His statements were made during the World Environment Day and just before the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) present your climate predictions for the next five years.
“On the issue of climate, we are not the dinosaurs, we are the meteorite,” said the secretary during his speech in New York, and stated: “We are not only in danger, we are the danger.”
The latest scientific alerts indicate that May 2024 It was the warmest May ever recorded in the world, both on land and sea surface, being the 12th consecutive month to break its own record. In this sense, Guterres recalled that “global emissions must decrease by 9% annually until 2030 so that the 1.5° C limit is not exceeded.”
“It is a critical moment for the climate,” he insisted the UN representative, who called to “take the exit ramp to leave the highway that leads to climate hell“, at a time when countries must present new greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets before the beginning of 2025.
Several of the critics of his speech targeted the fossil energy sector, whom he referred to as “the Godfathers of climate chaos.”
Climate reports warn about global warming
According to him Copernicus Climate Change Servicethe global average temperature in the 12-month period to the end of May was 1.63 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial averagemaking it the warmest since records began in 1940.
This 12-month average does not mean that the world has yet surpassed the 1.5°C global warming threshold, which describes an average temperature over decades, beyond which scientists They warn of more extreme and irreversible impacts.
In another report, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) The UN said there is an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will mark the first calendar year with an average temperature that temporarily exceeds 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, up from 66% in the year. past.
Source: Ambito
