Climate change is happening—the world is already 1.1°C warmer than it was at the onset of the industrial revolution, and it is already having a significant impact on the world, and on people’s lives. And if current trends persist, then global temperatures can be expected to rise by 3.4 to 3.9°C this century, which would bring wide-ranging and destructive climate impacts.
That’s the stark warning from the international community ahead of the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, which gets underway in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on 2 December. So, just two months after the Secretary-General convened a major Climate Action Summit at UN Headquarters in New York, what can be expected from COP25?
We just had the Climate Action Summit in New York. How is COP25 different?
But why all the UN attention on the climate?
So what did the September Climate Action Summit achieve?
Hang on: UNEP, WMO, IPCC, UNFCCC, COP…why all the acronyms?
And what’s important about this COP?
By UN News. November 29, 2019.
