في الشهر الماضي، كشفت المنظمة العالمية للأرصاد الجوية أن أربعة مؤشرات مناخية رئيسية قد تجاوزت أرقاما قياسية جديدة في عام 2021، وهي: ارتفاع مستوى سطح البحر؛ وحرارة المحيطات؛ وتحمُّض المحيطات؛ وتركيزات غازات الدفيئة. ومن الواضح أن الأزمات الثلاثية المتمثلة في تغير المناخ وفقدان التنوع البيولوجي والتلوث تهدد صحة محيطاتنا، التي نعتمد عليها جميعا في نهاية المطاف.
A report released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. Together with the IPCC’s previous two reports on physical science and adaptation in the past year, it reveals the yawning gap between climate pledges and reality. And the reality is that we are speeding toward disastrous global warming of more than double the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, as cited in the Paris agreement of 2016.
As the world moves ahead to mark International Women’s Day, the clock on women’s rights is moving backwards. All of us are paying the price.
As Secretary-General of the United Nations, I spend much of my time speaking with world leaders and taking the pulse of global trends. It’s clear to me that we are at a defining moment in international relations. Global decision making is plagued by gridlock – and a fundamental paradox lies at the heart of it.
We live in worrying times. The climate crisis, stark inequalities, bloody conflicts and human rights abuses, and the personal and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have put our world under greater stress than it has faced in my lifetime.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about global solidarity. Unfortunately, words by themselves will not end the pandemic – or curb the impact of the climate crisis.
As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, a parallel and equally horrific pandemic has threatened half the world’s population.
In this pivotal year for humanity, now is the time for bold climate action.
