Archive for November 11th, 2024

11/11/2024

‘Adapt or Perish’

Human Wrongs Watch

By Vibhu Mishra

UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit

(UN News)* — Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned Thursday [], starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at the upcoming COP29 summit.

A girl from the Iñupiat community stands on an ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States. The anomalous melting of the Arctic ice is one of the many effects of global warming that has a serious impact on the life of h…
UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin | A girl from the Iñupiat community stands on an ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States. The anomalous melting of the Arctic ice is one of the many effects of global warming that has a serious impact on the life of humans and the wildlife.
11/11/2024

2024 Is on Track to Be Hottest Year on Record

Human Wrongs Watch

Baku, Azerbaijan, 11 November 2024 – The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Cracked dry earth stretches toward a colorful sunset sky with pink and orange clouds on the horizon.

The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.

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