“Final Warning” for climate crisis scientists have turned to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions pushing the planet on the verge of irreversible destruction which could only be reversed by swift and decisive intervention.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released today, Monday, the last part of its mammoth Sixth Assessment Report.

The compilation of this comprehensive report – the mammoth on the climate crisis was necessary hundreds of scientists and eight years. And although it consists of a thousand pages, it boils down to one message: Immediate action or destruction.

“This report is a resounding call for a massive acceleration of efforts in every country, every sector and every time frame. Our world needs climate change action on all fronts: always, everywhere and at the same time,” explained Mr. UN Secretary General, António Guterres.

Dramatic Warning

The IPCC presented a catastrophe that has already happened in large parts of the planet. The report says global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels sometime “around the first half of the 2030s” as people continue to burn coal, oil and natural gas.

Extreme weather caused by climate collapse has resulted in more deaths than ever, more intense heatwaves, millions of lives and property have been destroyed by floods and droughts, millions of people are facing the threat of famine, and losses in vital ecosystems are becoming ‘increasing’. more irreversible losses. .

More than 3 billion people live in areas “highly vulnerable” to climate collapse, while half the world’s population is experiencing severe dehydration at least part of the year. In many areas, extreme conditions lead to bias people in Africa, Asia, North, Central and South America and the South Pacific, warns the report.

As the report notes, there is one last chance to change the trajectory of humanity. However, this requires that industrialized countries immediately come together to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about half by 2030, and then stop emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by the early 2050s.

As stated, if these two steps are taken, humanity will have a 50 percent chance of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The report, which adopted by 195 governments, reports that existing and planned fossil-fuel infrastructure — coal-fired power plants, oil wells, factories, cars and trucks around the world — will already produce enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet by about 2 degrees Celsius this century. To keep temperatures below that level, many of these projects will have to be cancelled, shut down earlier than planned, or upgraded in a greener way.

Source: New York Times/Guardian.