Established in 1992 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, this day underscores the urgent call from scientists to halt global warming and its effects on people and their daily lives.
Just a week ago, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in its latest report that the entire world is experiencing and will experience extreme events as temperatures continue to shrink and the window to stop them shrinks.
He specified that the rapid and far-reaching changes on the planet are already affecting extreme weather and climate phenomena in all regions, leading to disruptions, losses and damage to nature and people.
In recent decades there have been significant climatic fluctuations, the product of dizzying industrial development and population growth with a variety of consequences, such as the greenhouse effect, global warming, environmental pollution, the depletion of natural resources and the depletion of the ozone layer.
Data compiled by the United Nations points to the importance of climate: every year since 1977 has been warmer than the average temperature for the entire 20th century due to emissions from oil and coal, while the main cause of global warming is the high concentration of carbon dioxide in the The atmosphere.
Between 3.3 billion and 3.6 billion people living in contexts severely affected by climate change were 15 times more likely to die from floods, droughts and storms between 2010 and 2020 than people in regions with less climate threats.
Regarding ecosystems, experts assure that as temperatures rise, they suffer damage, leading to massive extinctions of species on land and in the oceans, an impact that is pushing some to a point of no return due to the consequences of the decline are glaciers and melting arctic permafrost.
For this reason, it must be taken into account that climate change is an overarching threat. Therefore, if you want to reduce poverty rates or improve health rates, it is impossible to plan them without considering their prospects and implications and to keep them in mind in all public policies, assured the United Nations Intergovernmental Committee.
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