“The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, once again called on world leaders for urgent action, calling the global temperature increase of 1.5°C “a red line for humanity.””, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Antonio Guterres, photo: Getty Images Source: Guterres at the COP30 climate summit in Belém (Brazil)
Direct speech Guterres: “Every fraction of a degree means more hunger, population displacement and loss, especially for those least responsible for it. This can lead to irreversible changes in ecosystems, put billions of people in unbearable living conditions and increase threats to peace and security.”
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Details: Failure to curb global warming is a “moral defeat and fatal negligence,” Guterres added.
Every year that gets warmer, he said, “will hit the economy, deepen inequality, and impact developing countries the most, even though they contributed the least.”
Direct speech Guterres: “After decades of denial and procrastination, the science now tells us that a temporary exceedance of the 1.5°C limit – starting no later than the early 2030s – is inevitable.”
“We need a fundamental paradigm shift to limit the scale and duration of this overshoot and to rapidly reduce it. Even a temporary overshoot would cause much greater destruction and cost to each country.”
Details: Backing up his warning, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) chief Celeste Saulo said greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest level in 800,000 years.
Direct speech Saulo: “From January to August this year, Earth’s average temperature was about 1.42 °C above pre-industrial levels, and ocean temperatures also reached record highs, causing lasting damage to marine ecosystems and economies.”
Details: Guterres said the 1.5°C limit remains a “red line for humanity”, calling for rapid emissions cuts, an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels and stronger protection of forests and oceans.
He highlighted the growing momentum of the clean energy breakthrough, noting that investment in renewable energy now exceeds investment in fossil fuels by $800 billion.
Guterres noted that “clean energy is winning on price, performance and potential,” but he said it “requires political courage.”
We will remind: Due to global warming and deforestation, more than a quarter of the animals, plants and fungi on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List are threatened with extinction. In particular, we are talking about three species of arctic seals.
The world is crossing the critical threshold of global warming faster than expected, according to a scientific report prepared by 160 researchers from around the world. Scientists warn that coral reefs are already on the brink of irreversible extinction, which could be the first major “tipping point” in ecosystem destruction caused by climate change.