According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), failing to meet the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement will have "irreversible impacts on people and ecological systems".
In the draft of a comprehensive IPCC report, the experts assume that global warming of two degrees would expose an additional 420 million people to the risk of heatwaves. By 2050, depending on the scale of greenhouse gas emissions, there could be a risk of hunger for up to an additional 80 million people.
"Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate upheaval by generating new species and creating new ecosystems," the draft report states. "Humans cannot."
Those who pollute the least are hit the hardest
The roughly 4,000-page draft cites declining crop yields due to increasing heat, drinking water shortages, mass displacement caused by droughts and the flooding of coastal cities, as well as the ongoing loss of species, as some of the consequences of global warming. The countries that have contributed least to climate change are said to be particularly affected.
Far-reaching consequences for Europe too... read the article at: orf.at
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