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This report confirms that the world faces planetary scale challenges ... yet it also provides clear pathways and solutions, demonstrating that with urgent, decisive action, we still can avoid unmanageable outcomes,
the researchers wrote
The consequences for global climate, weather patterns, and human well-being would be severe,
the report saidWe have enough information about our methane emissions to take action, but more enforceable policies to drive reductions are vital. While reductions in the fossil fuel and waste sectors are most feasible, addressing agricultural emissions is also critical,
the report notedFurther reduction of anthropogenic aerosol emissions will reduce health impacts and directly save lives, and is beneficial for climate and the environment,
the report saidDue to climate change, Amazon forests are approaching multiple thresholds (related to temperature, rainfall, and seasonality), beyond which significant ecological changes can be triggered, potentially leading to a large-scale forest collapse,
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By restoring land, we restore life, restore our economies, restore our communities, and so much more. We cannot stop the climate crisis today, biodiversity loss tomorrow, and land degradation the day after. We need to tackle all these issues together.”
As UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw emphasized
Humanity is waging a war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal.”
As U.N. Secretary General António Guterres once put itNatural climate variability plays a big role in carbon cycle but in the near future, climate change itself could cause ecosystems to become larger sources of greenhouse gases,
she explained
Current trends will see global warming cross all warming limits that global leaders agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate agreement,
he addedThe question is to what degree will we see that manifest at COP29 in action,
Barrett added
Greenhouse gas pollution at these levels will guarantee a human and economic trainwreck for every country, without exception,
said Simon Stiell, executive secretary of UN Climate Change
The report's findings are stark but not surprising -- current national climate plans fall miles short of what's needed to stop global heating from crippling every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every country,
said U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell
CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than at any time during human existence,
the report saidThe last generation of NDCs set the signal for unstoppable change,
said Stiell
This should set alarm bells ringing among decision-makers,
said WMO Secretary-General Celeste SauloWhat we are seeing is that in some cases, [the NDC process] might be used as a negotiating mechanism – more money for more ambition,
said Pablo Vieira, global director of the NDC Partnership, a non-government group helping about 60 countries draw up their pledgesThey also want to make sure that the new NDCs are investable, that they have the necessary elements that will attract not just public finance, but also private,
he saidThese are more than just statistics. Every part per million and every fraction of a degree temperature increase has a real impact on our lives and our planet,
said Saulo
Much bolder new national climate plans cannot only avert climate chaos,
he said,