World Faces Climate’s Ultimatum

World on the verge of climate ‘abyss’, as temperature rise continues: UN chief

19 April 2021 (UN News)

“…[T]he global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial level….[which] is ‘dangerously close’ to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit advocated by scientists to stave off the worst impacts of climate change…[According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) State of the Global Climate, the] six years since 2015, have been the warmest on record, and the decade beginning up to this year, was the warmest ever…

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…[The world is ‘on the verge of the abyss’ and] 2021, ‘must be the year for action’ on] new nationally determined contributions (NDCs)…[because] climate change undermines sustainable development efforts, through a cascading chain of interrelated events that can worsen existing inequalities, as well as raise the potential for feedback loops, perpetuating the deteriorating cycle of climate change…

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…[The WMO reported concentrations of the major greenhouse gases continued to increase in 2019 and 2020, with global average for carbon dioxide concentrations having already exceeded 410 parts per million (ppm)…” click here for more

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