The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently released a climate science report to inform policymakers at the UN Climate Action Summit, which opened Monday, September 23.
According to the report, WMO's team of natural and social scientists find that even though renewables have seen extraordinary growth, fossil fuel use and emissions increased in 2018 and peak emissions will not be reached by 2030, let alone by 2020.
Also, the report indicates that 2015-2019 are on track to be the hottest five years in recorded history. The researchers highlight how major heatwaves, record-breaking fires, floods, drought, and tropical cyclones have devastated socio-economic development during this period.
The report also finds that climate policies in place will fall short to achieve the Paris agreement's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). But a global youth climate movement inspired a concurrent Youth Climate Action Summit. This call to action brings hope when many are discouraged by insufficient climate crisis legislation. Read the Entire Article
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.