translated from Spanish: UN launches alert global disaster from the year 2030

photography / Internet United States-according to a report by the world scientific authority on climate change, Governments around the world should make “quick changes, long “scope and unprecedented in all aspects of society” to avoid disastrous levels of global warming.
The report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) of the United Nations points out that the planet will reach the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2030, which will accelerate the risk of extreme drought, forest fires, flooding and shortage of food for hundreds of millions of people.
The date is based on current levels of greenhouse gas emissions. The planet is already two-thirds of the way, with global temperatures that have warmed to approximately 1 degree centigrade.
Professor of science of the climate at the University of Melbourne, Andrew King, said in a statement: “this is worrying because we know that there are many more problems if we exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, including more heat waves and” hot summers, a greater increase of the sea level and, in many parts of the world, worse droughts and extreme precipitation events”.
By 2030, global net emissions of carbon dioxide would have to decrease by 45% from 2010 levels and reach the “net zero” around 2050 to keep warming about 1.5 degrees centigrade.
According to the report, reducing emissions to this degree, although it is technically possible, would require widespread in energy, industry, buildings, transport and cities changes.
“The window to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius is closing rapidly and promises of current emissions made by the signatories to the Paris agreement does not bring us to the achievement of this objective”, added King.
The report makes it clear that climate change is already happening, and what will follow could be even worse, unless urgent international policy measures are taken.
“One of the key messages coming out with great force from this report is that already we are seeing the consequences of a global warming of a degree through a climate more extreme, the increase of the sea level and the reduction of sea ice in the Arctic “, among other changes”, said Panmao Zhai, co-Chair of working group I of the IPCC.
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