Easier said than done, comes the reply from diplomats and policymakers. The science is unequivocal: action must be ramped up dramatically. It argued forcefully that the world is letting the chance to meet the Paris Agreement goal of only 1.5 degrees of warming slip through its hand. The United Nations Environment Programme’s 2022 climate report was ominously titled ‘The closing window’. The need for urgent action worldwide has never been more obvious.Īnd yet even as the atmosphere races ahead of the climate models, and the need for urgent action intensifies, ambition and implementation lag behind. Climate change, in other words, is most definitely here. A heat dome over Texas and Mexico has baked the region for weeks. The North Sea is five degrees hotter than normal and the Baltic Sea eight degrees hotter.
In April, Vietnam and Laos saw their hottest temperatures on record, and in India hundreds have died in extreme heat conditions.
Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the PacificĪsia has been sweltering through one of its most intense heat waves in memory.
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