UN warns of accelerating sea level rise due to climate change
The United Nations has warned that sea levels are rising faster due to climate change, ocean warming, and melting glaciers, calling it a development emergency.
The United Nations has sounded the alarm over accelerating sea level rise caused by climate change, ocean warming, and melting glaciers. In a presentation of a UN report, Navid Hanif, the Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, stated that global sea levels increased by an average of 4.7 millimeters annually from 2014 to 2023, with a record high of 5.9 millimeters in 2024.
Hanif emphasized that a half-meter rise in sea level by the end of the century is now unavoidable due to documented warming. He stressed the importance of limiting global temperature increases to as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible, and highlighted the need for enhanced financing, adaptation capacity, and risk preparedness to address this growing development emergency.
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