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Tuesday 5 april 2022

Smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China’s Shanxi Province
Nov. 28, 2019.
Associated Press
U.N. warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward

an unlivable world’

By FRANK JORDANS and below 2 degrees Celsius Ongoing investments in
SETH BORENSTEIN (3.6 Fahrenheit) this centu- fossil fuel infrastructure and
Associated Press ry, ideally no more than 1.5 clearing large swaths of
BERLIN (AP) — Tempera- degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahr- forest for agriculture under-
tures on Earth will shoot enheit). Yet temperatures mine the massive curbs in
past a key danger point have already increased by emissions needed to meet
unless greenhouse gas over 1.1C (2F) since pre- the Paris goal, the report
emissions fall faster than industrial times, resulting in found.
countries have committed, measurable increases in Emissions in 2019 were
the world’s top body of cli- disasters such flash floods, about 12% higher than
mate scientists said Mon- extreme heat, more in- they were in 2010 and 54%
day, warning of the con- tense hurricanes and lon- higher than in 1990, said
sequences of inaction but ger-burning wildfires, put- Skea.
also noting hopeful signs ting human lives in danger The rate of growth has
of progress. U.N. Secretary- and costing governments slowed from 2.1% per year
General Antonio Guterres hundreds of billions of dol- in the early part of this cen-
said the report by the In- lars to confront. tury to 1.3% per year be-
tergovernmental Panel on “Projected global emis- tween 2010 and 2019, the
Climate Change revealed sions from (national pledg- report’s authors said.
“a litany of broken climate es) place limiting global But they voiced “high con-
promises” by governments warming to 1.5C beyond fidence” that unless coun-
and corporations, accus- reach and make it harder tries step up their efforts to
ing them of stoking global after 2030 to limit warming cut greenhouse gas emis-
warming by clinging to to 2C,” the panel said. sions, the planet will on av-
harmful fossil fuels. In other words, the report’s erage be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3
“It is a file of shame, cata- co-chair, James Skea of to 6.3 F) warmer by the end
loguing the empty pledg- Imperial College London, of the century — a level
es that put us firmly on told The Associated Press: experts say is sure to cause
track toward an unlivable “If we continue acting as severe impacts for much of
world,” he said. we are now, we’re not the world’s population. q
Governments agreed in even going to limit warm-
the 2015 Paris accord to ing to 2 degrees, never
keep global warming well mind 1.5 degrees.” Casa del Mar 2BR/2B

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