UN Secretary-General António Guterres came to the G7 summit to draw the world leaders’ attention to climate issues, because “all that is happening now is an extreme climate situation.” This was reported by UN News.
The UN Secretary-General noted that he arrived at the G-7 meeting to appeal to the international community and to mobilize action ahead of his Climate Action Summit next month.
“The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached the highest level in the history of mankind: such a level of CO2 concentration existed 3-5 million years ago,” Guterres said.
He also drew attention to the Greenland’s ice melting, fires blazing from the Siberia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland beyond the Arctic Circle and to the Amazon, which in June and July of this year led to the release of tens of megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“All that happens is an extreme climate situation. Today we are much worse than what we were during Paris [Paris climate conference in 2015 – ed.] and scientific evidence confirms this. According to experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we need to keep the increase of temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius to the end of the century and to be carbon dioxide emissions neutral by 2050, and reduce emissions by 45% by 2030,” head of the UN said.
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