As we prepare to stand in solidarity with the Global Climate
Strike today, this alarming news from scientists knock our doors again asking
for emergency actions to face the unprecedented impacts of climate change. A
landmark new report #UnitedInScience, compiled by the UN World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), and that is to be presented to the UN Climate Action
Summit, underlines the glaring – and growing – gap between agreed targets to
tackle global warming and the actual reality.
The UN has reported that among other findings, the report
says that accelerating climate impacts from melting ice caps to sea-level rise
and extreme weather were to blame for the record as the global average
temperature increased by 1.1°C above pre-industrial (1850-1900) times and 0.2°C
warmer than 2011-2015. It highlights the urgency of fundamental socio-economic
transformations and carbon-curbing actions in key sectors such as land use and
energy to avert dangerous global temperature increase, with potentially
irreversible impacts. It also examines tools to support both mitigation and
adaptation.
While the world leaders will discuss the details in the UN
Climate Summit, let’s do our bit. Join
us at Budharaja foot hills, Sambalpur at 4 pm today (23rd September)
in a silent #ClimateStrike in support of the #GlobalClimateStrike.
For further details and to participate in today’s strike,
please contact us at:
Ranjan Panda
Convenor, Water Initiatives
Mahanadi River Waterkeeper (Member, Global Waterkeeper
Alliance, New York)
Convenor, Combat Climate Change Network, India
Email: ranjanpanda@gmail.com
Tweets @ranjanpanda
Tweets @MahanadiRiver
