Climate Change Devastation ‘Just Beginning’

• This year’s devastating floods, droughts and record summer heat waves are indications that climate change warnings are increasingly coming true.

At the international level, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are still insufficient to limit global warming. But in this regard, among the important developments that have come out this year, in addition to the new legislations in the United States and Europe, the agreement made in the United Nations global climate negotiations is also important, according to which climate change is one of the most destructive disasters. Countries at high risk will be helped to deal with them.

However, the goal of keeping global warming to a safe limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius since the pre-industrial era appears to be in jeopardy. This is due to the increased use of fossil fuels, which emits toxic carbon dioxide, which is the main cause of global warming.

At the United Nations meeting on climate change held in Egypt in November of this year, UN chief Antonio Guterres said that humanity currently needs collective efforts or collective efforts in the fight against global warming. One has to choose between suicide.

However, according to observers, decisions on the most important issues were neglected.
This year, the United Nations climate experts, giving the strongest warning of the dangers faced by the world and human beings, released the report on the effects of climate, which was called the ‘Atlas of Human Suffering’.

Since then, it has been seen how dangerous the global climate change could be due to a mere 1.2 degree Celsius temperature increase. These include crop damage from China to Europe due to a record heat wave, as well as millions of people suffering from famine in many of Africa’s most volatile West African countries.
Not only this, but due to climate change, severe floods in Pakistan this year affected nearly 33 million people and cost the country nearly $30 billion, while also having devastating effects on the economy.

According to scientist Robert Vatard, head of France’s Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute, 2022 will be one of the hottest years on record with everything that could have happened due to the increase in temperature. It’s just the beginning.

While economies are already facing catastrophic climate extremes, many countries are also burdened by rising energy prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Against this background, last month in the United Nations negotiations in Egypt, the richest countries that are the most responsible for spreading pollution and causing climate disasters, the fund to compensate the damages caused to the poor countries. agreed to the establishment of which is a historic initiative.

On this occasion, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, called this decision a ‘long-term investment in the common future’. On the other hand, the countries facing climate risks say that in this conference in Egypt, it was agreed to deal with the damages, but it was not discussed to stop it and reduce the emissions that cause them, i.e. the use of fossil fuels.

The head of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, not only warned that our planet is on the brink of destruction, but also emphasized that humanity and the world are also facing a loss of biodiversity, which it is up to the world to deal with. It is very important at this time.

The United Nations climate conference will now be held in the fossil fuel exporter United Arab Emirates in 2023, with efforts to limit rising global temperatures to a limit of two degrees Celsius, a 2015 agreement reached in Paris. will be reviewed.