Christiana Figueres,who led the 2015 Paris accord, stresses urgency of meeting 1.5C targetPolitical leaders bear been urged to act on the landmark special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and which has warned that strong efforts would be required to prevent disastrous consequences from dangerous levels of climate change.
Christiana Figueres,the former UN climate chief who led the historic Paris agreement of 2015, said: “There is nothing opaque approximately this recent data. The illustrations of mounting impacts, and the fast-approaching and irreversible tipping points are visceral versions of a future that no policy-maker could wish to usher in or be responsible for.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com