The world is on the brink of a climate cliff, the UN has warned. The reaction of the world organization came in response to a study by the British publication "Guardian", BNR reported, in which leading climate experts announced that they expect global warming to be much greater than the international goal of limiting it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Celsius.
The study covered nearly 400 authors of scientific reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 80 percent of them expect an increase in temperatures of at least 2.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era. This would mean a catastrophic level of warming, the Guardian explains. Many experts anticipate a future in which there is famine, conflict and mass migration caused by heat waves, forest fires, floods and storms of far greater intensity and frequency than we have witnessed.
According to the majority of scientists, the biggest obstacle to the implementation of actions to limit global warming is the lack of political will. "Political and industry leaders must realize that we are on the edge of the precipice. The science is clear and the stakes for all of humanity could not be higher," said a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in this regard.