"We are in trouble. We are in deep trouble with climate change. Climate change is running faster than we are, and we must catch up sooner rather than later before it is too late...We are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough, to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.” read more...
Source: UN- Secretary General
UN News - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the COP24 climate summit in Poland with a dramatic appeal to world leaders to take seriously the threat of global warming and avert a catastrophic rise in temperatures before the end of the century.
When world leaders signed the Paris Agreement, they agreed to limit temperature rise to 2°C above pre‑industrial levels, and to strive for 1.5°C. These targets were set to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Scientists are now worried that we will miss these targets. read more...
Source: UN- Deputy Secretary General
Sep 18, 2018 - Failure to Limit Temperature Rise by 2020 Might Make Target of 1.5°C impossible, Deputy Secretary-General Warns at ‘One Planet Summit’
The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” read more...
Oct. 7, 2018 - Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
“The science is clear. Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive and irreversible impacts on life on Earth. The window of opportunity for action is almost closed,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. read more...
Nov. 22,, 2018 - UN PRESS RELEASE: WMO: Greenhouse Gas Levels in Atmosphere Reach New Record
"Failing to agree on climate action would ‘not only be immoral’ but ‘suicidal’, UN chief tells COP24" read more...
UN NEWS / Climate, Dec. 12, 2018 - ANTONIO GUITERRES
A new analysis, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago... Though the new findings provide a grim forecast for the future of the oceans, Mr. Hausfather said that efforts to mitigate global warming, including the 2015 Paris climate agreement, would help. “I think there’s some reason for confidence that we’ll avoid the worst-case outcomes,” he said, “even if we’re not on track for the outcomes we want.” read more...
Jan. 10, 2019 - Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds