Weird how this can happen after all those countries pledged to Do Something back in 2015
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.
In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.
He urged the leaders who will gather in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points” in the Amazon, the Arctic and the oceans.
“Let’s recognise our failure,” he told the Guardian and Amazon-based news organisation Sumaúma. “The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs.
“Our failure”? How about the failure of all the Elites who have done absolutely zero to reduce their own carbon footprints? Imagine what might have happened if all the Warmists had given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral? Even cut their carbon footprints in half? This could have been solved. If the whole thing was real, of course.
He said the priority at Cop30 was to shift direction: “It is absolutely indispensable to change course in order to make sure that the overshoot is as short as possible and as low in intensity as possible to avoid tipping points like the Amazon. We don’t want to see the Amazon as a savannah. But that is a real risk if we don’t change course and if we don’t make a dramatic decrease of emissions as soon as possible.”
Is this the same COP30 where 40K will take fossil fueled flights from around the world then take fossil fueled vehicles to the venue traveling down a road which was built by chopping down lots of the Amazon?
Fewer than a third of the world’s nations (62 out of 197) have sent in their climate action plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement. The US under Donald Trump has abandoned the process. Europe has promised but so far failed to deliver. China, the world’s biggest emitter, has been accused of undercommitting.
Well, that’s weird? It’s almost like most do not actually care to go beyond the pledges.
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