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New Delhi: The world was put on “Code Red” alert on Monday to the threat from global warming, which is predicted to breach a 1.5C rise within decades, fuelling more floods, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.
The dire warning came as a landmark report, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which gave the most detailed and alarming projections yet on how climate change is damaging the planet. The Evening Standard reported the key conclusions include:
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “Today’s report is a Code Red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”
Offering a ray of hope, he added: “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe. But…there is no time for delay and no room for excuses.”
The study, agreed by 195 countries, will pile pressure on governments to finally commit to decisive action to stop catastrophic warming of the earth at the COP26 climate change summit in November in Glasgow.
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