UN discusses climate change

A few days before the start of COP27, a series of documents warn of the urgent need to contain this phenomenon

Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) will host the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will start on November 6 and last twelve days.

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference will discuss how to tackle the climate emergency – amid the growing energy crisis, record concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and rising extreme weather events – with the aim of renewing solidarity among countries to deliver on the Paris Agreement. whose objective is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, preferably to 1.5 ºC, compared to pre-industrial levels.

In this context, a series of official documents have been published these weeks warning of the need to take action on the matter to contain this global phenomenon.

‘Huge challenge’

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published on Wednesday the ‘WMO Bulletin on Greenhouse Gases’, in which it notes that the atmospheric levels of the three main GHGs reached new historical highs in 2021, which is “another fateful warning of climate change”.

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the WMO, considers that the report highlights the “enormous challenge” and “the vital need” to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the global temperature from rising further.

“We have to transform our industrial, energy and transportation systems, and our entire lifestyle,” he said.

“The changes to be implemented are economically affordable and technically feasible. Time is running out,” he warned.

A day later, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its ‘Emissions Gap Report 2022’, in which it argues that, as the impacts of climate change intensify around the world, the international community is still far from achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and does not have a “credible route” to contain global warming to the maximum agreed.

Source: The Country