Climate threatGlobal challenges

 

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Climate threatGlobal challenges  

Lack of time among the most important points in the report  

Today's temperature is 1.1 degrees above the temperatures that prevailed between 1850 and 1900. Climate adaptations are insufficient and there are future changes that are already impossible to avoid. These are some of the most important points in the new summary report from the UN climate panel IPCC, writes TT.  

At the same time, there are several points that give hope. The IPCC writes that it is possible to limit the consequences of the climate changes we are facing. The researchers also write that it is possible to limit further warming with active policy and legislation.  

SVT reports that one of the most important conclusions is that we only have ten years, or maybe even seven years, to act forcefully.  

Climate alarm: Act now to avoid disaster (Klimatlarmet: Agera nu för att undvika katastrof )

Somali women queue for emergency aid in Mogadishu in connection with a drought in 2011.Farah Abdi Warsameh / TT NEWS AGENCY / NTB Scanpix 

The drought in Somalia 

43,000 are believed to have died in last year's drought in Somalia  

43,000 people, half of whom are children, are estimated to have died as a result of last year's record-long drought in Somalia. This is shown by a new report from, among others, the World Health Organization, WHO, which the news agency AP has taken notice of. 

These are the first official death tolls from the drought that hit large parts of the Horn of Africa.  

According to the report, the crisis is "far from over" and at least 18,000 people are predicted to die as a result of the drought in the first six months of this year.  

A dead zebra in Kenya, which according to locals died of dehydration. Brian Inganga / AP  

Analysis: It is not cheap but necessary  

The coming years will be decisive for whether we will succeed in limiting global warming. That's what analysts at The Guardian, Le Monde and The Age write about the report from the UN climate panel today.  

"Three decades of warnings from the climate panel, mostly ignored, have left us at a crossroads," writes Damian Carrington in The Guardian, before raising the most central question of all: "What price are we prepared to pay to create a sustainable and viable future for all?”  

Audrey Garric at Le Monde emphasizes the seriousness of not listening to the alarm report.  

"Already today, billions of people are affected, continued emissions of greenhouse gases will increase the threats to food production, water supply, people's health, the economy of nations and the survival of nature," she writes. 

Nick O'Malley at Australian The Age points out that a change is possible and highlights that 18 countries have already reduced their emissions: 

"The steps that need to be taken are neither easy nor cheap, but they are necessary." 

Greta Thunberg at a demonstration in Oslo March 1, 2023. Javad Parsa / NTB  

Climate threat Reactions to the IPCC report 

Greta Thunberg: World leaders are committing climate fraud  

World leaders are failing humanity by not acting as they should on climate change. This is how climate activist Greta Thunberg comments on the IPCC's new report.  

"The fact that the people in power continue to live in denial and actively move in the wrong direction will one day be seen as the unprecedented betrayal it is," she writes in a statement to AFP.

 

 

UN: Rich countries must take the lead for a saved climate 

 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres places the main responsibility on rich countries if we are to meet the climate goals together. He stated this in connection with the UN climate panel releasing an extensive, scientific report on Monday.  

According to the report, the consequences of global warming will be felt much earlier than scientists previously thought. Among other things, the record heat of recent years is expected, probably seen as cool, already in a generation.  

 

The key to saving the situation is for the rich countries to reach climate neutrality by 2040. According to the climate panel, the global average temperature is expected to reach an increase of 1.5 degrees already at some point in the beginning of the next decade, according to AFP.