The new forecast of the planet’s temperature rise has increased even more the need for urgent action, in the assessment of the Brazilian Institute for Environmental Protection (PROAM).
This Monday (9), the annual report of the World Meteorological Organization warned of the possibility of the world becoming, on average, 1.5ºC warmer between 2022 and 2026. The chances, according to the WMO, are 50 %. The probability was 10% in the period between 2017 and 2022.
In an interview with CNN Radio Carlos Bocuhy, president of the Brazilian Institute for Environmental Protection, suggested a reassessment of the actions taken.
“It is necessary to have an assessment, if the measures that have been taken should be accelerated in order to reduce gas emissions in an essential way to maintain the limit of 1.5ºC.
Bocuhy warns that the situation is extremely worrying and requires even more urgent action in the fight against global warming.
The assessment is that the adaptation of the economy to a less polluting model is mandatory, since an increase of more than 1.5ºC in the average temperature of the planet would make the production of several branches of agribusiness unfeasible, for example.
“The effects of global warming are so harmful to human society and to the planet’s economy, that any type of investment to solve this is worth it”, assesses Bocuhy. “Companies that do not adapt will have to cease their production in the future, even by stricter measures.”
Also according to the WMO, there is a 93% chance that one of the years between 2022 and 2026 will be the warmest on record.
The global commitment established by the Paris Agreement seeks to prevent global warming from exceeding 2ºC this century.
Source: CNN Brasil

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