Scientists warn us again: Emergency Climate Action needed!

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 (23^rd 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

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