The United Nations Environment Program launches a call to massively develop efforts to limit the impacts of global warming on companies and ecosystems.
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In the past fifty years, on average, a disaster linked to weather, climatic or hydrological risks has taken place every day, responsible for the death of 115 people and 202 million dollars in losses, according to an estimate of the ‘Global Meteorological Organization. In question, the helplessness to stem the warming of the climate, but also the inaction in terms of adaptation to the increase in temperatures and to the multiplication of climatic extremes, that is to say measures intended to brake or Avoid damage affecting companies and ecosystems.
Efforts however “desperately necessary to plan, finance and implement adaptation to increasing risks”, deplores, in a press release, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on the occasion of the publication, Thursday November 3, of the report on the climate adaptation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
Entitled “Too little, too slowly, the failure of climate adaptation puts the world in danger”, the report alerts the urgency to act, the financing deficit and the limits of the strategy of the small Not, while on Sunday, November 6, the United Nations International Climate (COP 27) in Charm Egypt, on Sunday November 6, November 6, November 6 in Charm Egypt. Conditional crises like the Pandemic of Covid-19, war in Ukraine or inflation should not justify inaction in adaptation to climate change, warns the UNEP. “People who have become victims of food insecurity because of these crises would be less exposed to risks, if the regions where they live had developed more resilient,” said Henry Neufeldt, researcher to the UNEP and principal author of the report.
perverse effects
The intergovernmental group of experts on climate evolution (IPCC) has shown that the world will face serious climate risks by the end of the century, even in scenarios at low emission rate. And the impacts of warming at 1.1 ° C are already major. Prolonged drought episodes, such as the one in Africa’s horn for five years, destroy cultures and exhibit millions of people in famine. The glaciers retreat, causing both floods and water shortages. Cyclones have drowned countries like Pakistan or Bangladesh. Mosquitoes carrying diseases, such as malaria and dengue, propagate in territories hitherto not affected …
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