HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The world is heating up at an unprecedented pace, new climate data shows, and leaders gathered for the COP28 conference which opened in Dubai on Thursday [30 November 2023] must get us out of “deep trouble”, UN chief António Guterres said.

While 2023 is not yet over, a provisional report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that it is set to be the warmest on record, with global temperatures rising 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Mr. Guterres said that the race is on to keep alive the 1.5-degree limit agreed by world leaders in Paris in 2015.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Yin Shao Loong*

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 29 2023 (IPS)* – Many in the wealthy West have misrepresented the causes of global warming, offering false solutions while claiming the high moral ground. This distracts attention from how they became wealthy while emitting greenhouse gases.

Tragedy or farce?
Growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the industrial age have caused global warming, with their accumulation continuing to accelerate despite being close to exceeding 1.5°C warming and its associated tipping points.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

This is sometimes depicted as due to the failure to sustainably manage the atmosphere as a shared resource.

The ‘tragedy of the commons’ refers to a community’s inability to manage a common resource sustainably.