WORLD ON ‘ONE-WAY TICKET TO DISASTER’ OVER CLIMATE, UN CHIEF WARNS

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Sun 24 October 2021:

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said the world’s current climate situation is “a one-way ticket for disaster”, reiterating the urgency of agreement at the COP26 climate conference at the end of the month.

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, struck at the COP21 summit, called for global warming to be capped at well below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial level, and ideally closer to 1.5C (2.7F).

But current UN estimates indicate a “catastrophic” warming of 2.7C  (4.8F) is on the cards.

Guterres said on Thursday that such an increase was “obviously a one-way ticket for disaster.”

“I hope we are still on time to avoid a failure in Glasgow, but time is running short, and things are getting more difficult and that is why I’m very very worried. I’m afraid things might go wrong,” he said.

The Glasgow summit begins on October 31 and is seen as crucial for agreeing on worldwide emission targets that will slow global heating.

The Group of 20, which includes the world’s biggest economies, is due to meet in Italy on October 30, but leaders are said to be divided over phasing out coal and committing to the 1.5C target.

“The G20 leaders will meet in Rome and they know their economies are responsible for four-fifths of planet carbon pollution,” Guterres said.

“If they do not stand up … we are headed for terrible human sufferings,” he added.

SOURCE: AFP, AL JAZEERA

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