What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records. We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years,
Keeping changes in global average temperatures under 1.5C is not impossible, but it feels like a desperate enterprise,
Just a quick glance at the range of events happening around the globe right now – wildfires, flooding, heatwaves – tells us that we are not remotely prepared for the extremes that this warmer world has bought us,
On July 21st, C3S recorded a new record for the daily global mean temperature,
As a consequence of the increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — we are bound to see new records being broken in the next few months, in the next few years,
What is remarkable is how different the temperature of the last 13 months is with respect to the previous records,
When you have these peaks, they tend to cluster together,
As we look now at the scenarios, even in the most optimistic scenario, we will have to do a lot of adaptation, which means to prepare for the climate change that will happen anyway,
The past few years have confirmed to me how closely our security is linked to sustainable and forward-looking spatial planning. And that nature conservation is an important investment in security.”
The water was up to five or six metres at the end, in the street, which was incomprehensible. So, we were really scared. We even thought about death,
In the private sector and, also as public actors, we need to prepare for increasing crises related to extreme weather phenomena,