– We’re taking part in Russian roulette with our planet, Guterres mentioned in a speech on World Setting Day on Wednesday.
– We’d like an exit from the motorway to local weather hell, he added.
The UN chief spoke in English and used the expression “freeway to local weather hell”, as he additionally has achieved beforehand.
– The excellent news is that we management the steering wheel, mentioned Guterres, who expressed hope that it’s nonetheless attainable to restrict international warming to 1.5 levels.
– We’re the meteor
Guterres in contrast humanity to the asteroid that hit Earth and worn out the dinosaurs 66 million years in the past.
– With regards to the local weather, we’re not the dinosaurs. We’re the meteor. We’re not solely in peril. We’re the daddy, Guterres mentioned.
He made sharp criticism of corporations that produce coal, oil and fuel. Guterres known as on all international locations on this planet to ban promoting for fossil gasoline corporations, which he additionally believes have to be taxed extra closely.
Combustion of coal, oil and fuel results in giant emissions of the greenhouse fuel CO2.
Report warmth for a yr
Calculations made by the EU’s local weather monitoring service C3S present that the common temperature on this planet has been at document excessive ranges for one yr. The brand new figures had been introduced on Wednesday. For twelve months, a brand new international warmth document has been set for the respective month.
In Norway, the warmth document for Could was touched final month.
– With local weather change, we count on to see such information extra regularly, along with different excessive climate occasions, says Local weather and Setting Minister Andreas Bjelland Eriksen in an announcement to NTB.
– On the similar time, we should not lose coronary heart. It’s extra vital than ever that we right here in Norway and all international locations on this planet minimize emissions rapidly and sufficiently in order that excessive climate occasions don’t develop into larger than we’re in a position to deal with, says Eriksen.
– Goes at a snail’s tempo
The environmental group WWF World Nature Fund calls the document warmth of the previous yr scary, however not shocking.
– We all know what we now have to do. All options are already obtainable. Sadly, Norway just isn’t taking its share of duty for slicing emissions and transitioning away from oil and fuel. Quite the opposite, the Norwegian local weather cuts are shifting at a snail’s tempo, and we’re consistently opening new oil and fuel fields, says WWF CEO Karoline Andaur.
In a brand new report, the World Meteorological Group (WMO) estimates that there’s an 80 p.c chance that one of many subsequent 5 years shall be greater than 1.5 levels hotter than in pre-industrial instances.
In line with the WMO, the warming within the Arctic in the course of the winter months will most likely be greater than thrice as sturdy as the common for the remainder of the world.
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2024-06-07 04:14:20