The UN's latest climate report shows that not enough is being done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. No matter what measures we take today, we risk reaching an elevated average temperature of 1,5 degrees within two decades, according to Hoesung Lee, chairman of the UN Climate Panel.
"On February 28, four days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the UN's IPCC climate panel released its latest climate report."Climate change 2022: effects, adaptation and vulnerability”. The report is the second of a total of three compilations of knowledge about changes in the Earth's climate system. The last report will be published in April this year.
One of the main messages of the report is that it is now unequivocal that it is man who has caused global warming. In other words, the scientific links between human climate impact and observed climate extremes have been strengthened since the IPCC's first compilation of knowledge. The effects of global warming are also coming faster than scientists previously expected. Already today, almost half of the world's population lives in areas that are vulnerable to temperature rise.
In a video broadcast press conference expressed the UN Secretary-General António Guterres its disappointment at the unwillingness of those in power to take the necessary measures to prevent a climate catastrophe.
- I have seen many reports, but nothing like the new IPCC report - like a map book of human suffering, Guterres wrote after the publication.