Victims of flooding from monsoon rains carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home in the Dadu district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2022.
CLIMATE impacts are heading into “uncharted territories of destruction,” the head of the UN has warned, as a multi-agency report sets out the scale of the crisis.
The United In Science report, co-ordinated by the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), warns that “without ambitious action, the physical and socio-economic impacts of climate change will be devastating.”
It details greenhouse gas levels – largely carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels – continuing to rise, increasingly high global temperatures and destructive climate-driven floods, droughts and heatwaves already happening around the world.
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