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The island nations are anxious about the climate report: "The world must save our future"
A group of 39 countries, including Cuba, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives, issued an urgent statement following findings indicating rapid global warming.
A dramatic rise in water levels, as the pessimistic scenarios predict, will lead to their disappearance.
"Significant change must be made"
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Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 17:52
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The lowest country in the world.
Maldives (Photo: ShutterStock)
Dozens of small island nations called on the world to save their future, following the publication of the UN's dramatic report warning of rising sea levels endangering their continued existence. .
"We have to make a significant change," said Diane Black-Lane, head negotiator for climate pact island nations small and Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda. "obvious fact is that if we continue to heat up the top half, we still deal with a rise of half a meter water level .
But if we stop the warming from reaching two degrees, we can avoid a three-meter rise in the long run.
That is the future of our destiny. "
The group includes 39 countries, including Cuba, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives, the lowest country in the world.
She said the report confirms the need for governments around the world to take urgent action to halt global warming at a level of one and a half more compared to the pre-industrial era, in line with the God Agreement in Paris.
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The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published yesterday, warned that the world would reach this threshold around 2030, a decade earlier than forecasts published just three years ago. This warming will have devastating consequences for humanity, and it will bring with it more extreme weather events such as fires, typhoons, droughts and floods.
In the panel's most significant assessment since 2014, experts said that by the middle of the century, the threshold of one and a half degrees would cross in the optimistic scenario in the tenth degree, and almost an entire degree in the most pessimistic scenario.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and deforestation were "suffocating our planet and immediately endangering the lives of billions of people." He said the world must "combine forces" to avoid catastrophe.
Many world leaders have responded to the report by calling for urgent action, but Conservative Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today rejected growing calls to adopt more ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At the same time, China insists they are implementing their commitments rather than signaling that they intend to formulate a new policy despite the report's gloomy findings.
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