World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
Climate change in the form of increasingly frequent natural disasters will likely cut into our savings over time.
Guterres insisted “the 1.5-degree [Celsius] limit is achievable.” Science panel chief Hoesung Lee said so far the world is far off course. “It is certainly prudent to be planning for a future that’s warmer than 1.5 degrees [Celsius],” said IPCC report review editor Steven Rose, an economist at the Electric Power Research Institute in the United States.A new United Nations report says 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year, half of whom were probably children.
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