COP26 and China’s Climate Action
Our fragile planet is on the brink of a climate catastrophe. It’s time to go into emergency mode and mobilize concrete action with solidarity to safeguard our collective future.
Fiction to fact
The evidence for humanity’s influence on the climate system, once a scientific hypothesis, has become the established truth.
The past six years since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted have been the hottest years on record. To pinpoint a time when the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere changed this much this fast, one would have to turn back the clock 66 million years, the end of the dinosaur age.
Unprecedented high temperatures occurred in Russia and India this year. A heat wave, with temperatures hitting a record 48.8 degrees Celsius in Italy, sparked wildfires that devastated swaths of land and killed dozens of people across South Europe and North Africa, from Turkey, Greece and Italy to Morocco and Algeria. On June 29, the town of Lytton in southern British Columbia recorded Canada’s highest-ever temperature at 49.6 degrees Celsius. In New York, for the first time, residents were asked to stop using high-power appliances to safeguard the electrical grid. Iraq announced a mandatory official holiday after temperatures exceeded 50 degrees Celsius. Kuwait logged the highest temperature in the world: 54 degrees Celsius in the shade and up to 70 degrees Celsius in the sun.
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