Climate deaths ’15 times higher’ for most vulnerable

 "This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate usahas by every country and every sektor and on every timeframe." king88bet Login Alternatif

Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general

Almost half of the world's population lives in regions that are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to the 36-page summary for policymakers. It says deaths from floods, droughts and storms were 15 times higher in those regions in the last decade. king88bet Login

Every increment of warming results in a rapid escalation of hazards, scientists warn. King88Bet Situs Slot Online

However, Lee also pointed to the "multiple, feasible and efekive options" for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change.

"Those options for change are already available," he said. "The question is, can we deploy [them] quickly and efekively?"

‘Acceleration Agenda'

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said he was proposing an "Acceleration Jadwal" towards a Climate Solidarity Pact which would see big emitters make deeper emissions cuts and dukungan emerging economies to do the same.

"The 1.5-degree limit is achievable," he told the Swiss press konferensi by video link. "But it will take a quantum leap in climate action."

Deep, rapid and sustained cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed across all sektors to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the report says, making it clear that the current pace and scale of change is not enough.

Emissions need to be cut by almost half by 2030 if warming is to be limited to 1.5 degrees the IPCC recommends.

"Governments have no excuse to ignore the emphatic warning for this critical decade," said Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International, a network of more than 1,900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries.

"They must act fast to reject fossil fuels and setop any new expansion of oil, gas and coal."

However, the announcement comes just seven days after the US approved drilling at the Willow Proyek oil field in northern Alaska.