We’ ve collectively as the world, failed to maintain the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius as agreed and this will come to haunt us because of its severe consequences on the planet, says United Nation Secretary General, António Guterres.
Guterres says despite repeated plea from climate change campaigners for all players to unite and save mother nature from the crisis, which apparently is here to stay for the long haul, countries have collectively failed to meet their goal, agreed upon a decade ago in Paris.
The UN chief is cited by the Guardian and Wajã Xipai of the Amazon-based outlet Sumauma as lamenting the global laxity to upscale the urge to jointly maintain global temperature. This is as espoused. Humanity is all, but certain to surpass the threshold in the coming years-with dire consequences on the horizon.
This is so, especially for the world’s most vulnerable communities, citing Jamaica and the Caribbean nations faced with hurricanes including Melissa, which forms part of the climate change that continue taunting the world.
Reports from the Spanish newspaper El País called it “a textbook hurricane in times of climate crisis” — and offers a grim preview, with the planet currently at about 1.3 degrees C of heating. Last week, amid Hurricane Melissa-which is in the Category 5 was made four times more likely by climate change was devastating.
This, according to Guterres, should be redressed through climate actions including National Adaptation Plans (NAP), a key requirement for all attending to join the COP 30 to prioritise as part of the global preparedness to fight the crisis.
The upcoming climate talks to be hosted by Brazil in the Amazon City, Belem, there is need for the world to change course of destiny, the UN chief says, arguing:
| “Whether world leaders are up to the task, however, remains to be seen.”
Under Donald Trump, the US, the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, is not sending an official delegation to Belém at all. American climate activists attending the Government’s stead say, they will nevertheless press for action the world badly needs. “This is a really important moment to illustrate that Trump does not represent the entirety, or even anywhere near a majority, of us,” one activist is cited as having told The Guardian’s Dharna Noor. “The conference will take place amid growing awareness that the vast majority of the world’s population —as much 89%, according to a recent study — want more to be done about the climate crisis but mistakenly assume their peers do not. In the US … three-quarters of those surveyed said their government should do more. But Donald Trump has pushed the country in the opposite direction.” Noor’s piece is part of the ongoing second phase of Covering Climate Now’s 89 Percent Project, aiming to elevate news of the global supermajority that wants governments to do more to fight climate change. Ahead of the COP 30-planned for 11-21 November, COP30 president André Aranha Corrêa do Lago has raised momentum and looks at main issues in the upcoming negotiations. This includes energy transition progress, financing, adaptation, and his hope that it will be remembered as the “adaptation COP.” , reports Tais Gadea Lara for InfoAmazon. Campaigner have raised voices over the increased temperature with a call to world leaders to fulfil their pledges to cut carbon emissions 60% by 2035 from 1990 levels when they signed the Paris Agreement a decade ago. A new UN report finds that they are not close to meeting that goal, and that greenhouse gas emissions will fall only 10% by 2035. A study released recently attributes agriculture as one of the main drivers of about one-third of greenhouse gas emissions around the world. Brazil has made it a priority for discussion at next month’s COP30. This increased pressure has put livestock producer nations on the defensive, and is fueling disinformation and greenwashing about possible solutions. According to the 2025 world report on health and climate change, establishes that millions of people are needlessly dying every year from exposure to extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and the faster spread of diseases like dengue fever. All these, the report shows, are driven by the continuing use of fossil fuels, according to Keerti Gopal from Inside Climate News Show. “Heat-related deaths worldwide have risen 23% since the 1990s, according to the same report, with “rising global heat… now killing one person a minute around the world.” Damian Carrington from the Guardian, calls for sustained action to save lives while seeking to preserve the planet. Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed. The world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating. The report, the most comprehensive to date, says the damage to health will get worse with leaders such as Donald Trump ripping up climate policies and oil companies continuing to exploit new reserves. Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuel users and producers in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites. |