Urgent new report from the UN says the world is running out of time to stave off the most devastating consequences of global warming.
Villagers make a dam with mud in plastic bags to protect their only road in Pratap Nagar, that lies in the Shyamnagar region, in Satkhira, Bangladesh on Oct. 5, 2021.Climate change is no longer a far-off threat — it’s an ongoing disaster that is already endangering humans and natural environments around the world, according to an urgent new report from the United Nations that says the world is running out of time to stave off the most devastating consequences of global warming.
“Overall, the picture is stark for food systems,” one of the authors of the report, Rachel Bezner Kerr, a professor of global development at Cornell University, said Sunday in a news briefing. “No one is left unaffected by climate change.” The IPCC report also highlighted the mounting threat of global warming to human health, including the impact of climate change on people’s mental well-being — a first for the IPCC. Emerging research has shown, for instance, that increased exposure to heat waves, wildfires and other extreme weather events can take a toll on mental health.
Aerial view of a car and debris after the Rio das Velhas overflow in Honorio Bicalho, Brazil, on Jan. 12, 2022.The cost of inaction, on the other hand, could be devastating, according to the report. In addition to threats to humans, climate change is causing irreversible impacts on certain species and ecosystems, said an author of the report, Camille Parmesan, an adjunct professor of geological sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
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