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"Now Or Never" To Avoid Climate Catastrophe, Warns UN
Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than a decade to slash them almost in half, the UN said Monday in a landmark report on stopping global warming and ensuring a "liveable future".
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hit New High, On Track For 3 Degrees Celsius Warming: UN Report
Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.
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2010-2019 Set To Be The Hottest Decade In History, Says United Nations
This decade is set to be the hottest in history, the United Nations said Tuesday in an annual assessment outlining the ways in which climate change is outpacing humanity's ability to adapt to it.
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Humanity Must Rescue Oceans To Rescue Itself, UN Warns
Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.
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Sea Levels Rising 2.5 Times Faster Due To Melting Of Ice Sheets: UN
Since 2005 seas have risen 2.5 times faster than during the 20th century mainly due to melting of ice sheets, and will likely jump four-fold again by 2100 if carbon emissions continue unabated, the UN warned on Wednesday.
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Arctic Temperatures To Rise 3-5 Degrees By 2050, Says UN
Even if the world were to cut emissions in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic would rise three to five degrees Celsius by 2050 and five to nine degrees by 2080, devastating the region and unleashing sea level rises worldwide, a new report by the UN Environment warned on Thursday.
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Leaked UN Report Warns Of Rising Global Temperature, Catastrophic Impacts
Earth's temperature will cross the threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius, if urgent actions are not taken to curb global warming. The leaked final draft report of UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned, "if emissions continue at their present rate, human induced warming will exceed 1.5 degree by around 2040."
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Grew At Record Pace In 2016, UN Says
The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere grew at record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fueling a 20-metre rise in sea levels and adding 3 degrees to temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday.
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World Needs to Go 'Much Faster, Much Further' to Slow Warming: Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders at the start of two weeks of climate talks in Paris to accelerate action to avert a dangerous rise in temperatures.
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World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Add 100 Million Poor By 2030
Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.
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'Raise Your Voice, Not Sea Level': UN on Climate Talks
The United Nations seized World Environment Day on Thursday to demand action on climate change to protect small island states threatened by rising seas, drought and floods.
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Time running out to meet global warming target: UN report
World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft United Nations (UN) study to be approved this week shows.
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"Now Or Never" To Avoid Climate Catastrophe, Warns UN
Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than a decade to slash them almost in half, the UN said Monday in a landmark report on stopping global warming and ensuring a "liveable future".
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hit New High, On Track For 3 Degrees Celsius Warming: UN Report
Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.
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2010-2019 Set To Be The Hottest Decade In History, Says United Nations
This decade is set to be the hottest in history, the United Nations said Tuesday in an annual assessment outlining the ways in which climate change is outpacing humanity's ability to adapt to it.
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Humanity Must Rescue Oceans To Rescue Itself, UN Warns
Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.
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Sea Levels Rising 2.5 Times Faster Due To Melting Of Ice Sheets: UN
Since 2005 seas have risen 2.5 times faster than during the 20th century mainly due to melting of ice sheets, and will likely jump four-fold again by 2100 if carbon emissions continue unabated, the UN warned on Wednesday.
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Arctic Temperatures To Rise 3-5 Degrees By 2050, Says UN
Even if the world were to cut emissions in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic would rise three to five degrees Celsius by 2050 and five to nine degrees by 2080, devastating the region and unleashing sea level rises worldwide, a new report by the UN Environment warned on Thursday.
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Leaked UN Report Warns Of Rising Global Temperature, Catastrophic Impacts
Earth's temperature will cross the threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius, if urgent actions are not taken to curb global warming. The leaked final draft report of UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned, "if emissions continue at their present rate, human induced warming will exceed 1.5 degree by around 2040."
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Grew At Record Pace In 2016, UN Says
The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere grew at record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fueling a 20-metre rise in sea levels and adding 3 degrees to temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday.
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World Needs to Go 'Much Faster, Much Further' to Slow Warming: Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders at the start of two weeks of climate talks in Paris to accelerate action to avert a dangerous rise in temperatures.
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World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Add 100 Million Poor By 2030
Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.
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'Raise Your Voice, Not Sea Level': UN on Climate Talks
The United Nations seized World Environment Day on Thursday to demand action on climate change to protect small island states threatened by rising seas, drought and floods.
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Time running out to meet global warming target: UN report
World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft United Nations (UN) study to be approved this week shows.
