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‘We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,’ UN chief warns
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Guterres’ dire warnings on Monday came as world leaders gathered in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the UN’s annual COP conference, and a day after provisional findings from a UN study revealed that the last eight years have been the warmest on record.
As the preliminary report was released on Sunday, Guterres described it as a “chronicle of climate chaos” that detailed the catastrophic speed of climate change.
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The organization said on Sunday that since COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year, only 29 out of 194 countries had come forward with tightened national plans.
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According to the latest statistics from Our World in Data, China, the U.S. and India are the world’s biggest polluters, being the countries responsible for the biggest proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.
The organization’s figures also show that in 2020, China was responsible for a third of global CO2 emissions, while the U.S. was responsible for 13.5%.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-are-on-a-highway-to-climate-hell-with-ou...
Guterres’ dire warnings on Monday came as world leaders gathered in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the UN’s annual COP conference, and a day after provisional findings from a UN study revealed that the last eight years have been the warmest on record.
As the preliminary report was released on Sunday, Guterres described it as a “chronicle of climate chaos” that detailed the catastrophic speed of climate change.
...
The organization said on Sunday that since COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year, only 29 out of 194 countries had come forward with tightened national plans.
...
According to the latest statistics from Our World in Data, China, the U.S. and India are the world’s biggest polluters, being the countries responsible for the biggest proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.
The organization’s figures also show that in 2020, China was responsible for a third of global CO2 emissions, while the U.S. was responsible for 13.5%.
