UN: Humanity going in "wrong direction" on climate crisis

 

 

Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate crisis due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the UN has said in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic.

 

The UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Programme on Tuesday warned that catastrophes will become commonplace should the world economy fail to decarbonise in line with what science says is needed to prevent the worst impacts of global heating.

 

 

"Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

 

"There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity's fossil fuel addiction," said Guterres.

September 23, 2022