Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in report that maps path to get back below danger zone
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015…
In a recent report, the United Nations has declared that Earth has surpassed the safe temperature threshold established in the 2015 Paris climate accord and is on track to exceed it further. The report, released by the United Nations Environment Programme on Wednesday, warns that continuing to burn coal, oil, and gas will push global temperatures beyond the agreed-upon limit.
António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, stated that humanity is advancing past the critical threshold to avoid a climate catastrophe. The report outlines a new strategy to address the situation, emphasizing the need to bring temperatures back below the danger zone. Experts caution that even after achieving this goal, the world will still face decades of intensified weather-related disasters, rising sea levels, species extinctions, and melting glaciers and ice caps.
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