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Future generations face ‘climate carnage’ without surge in funding – UN
Secretary general warns effects of global heating are outstripping the ability to adapt to them
Pakistani children use a satellite dish as a raft during flooding in Balochistan province in August. The growing impact of the climate crisis has been clear this year.
A dramatic increase in funding for climate adaptation is needed to save millions of lives from “climate carnage”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said.
Climate adaptation includes preparing defences against rising floods, shelters against intensifying cyclones and emergency plans to protect people during worsening heatwaves and droughts. Guterres said only a small fraction of the required finance was given by rich nations to protect vulnerable people.
A report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said the worsening impacts of the climate crisis would outstrip the ability to provide protection without far more funding for adaptation, leading to “knockout blows” to generations to come.
The report found that 80% of countries had started adaptation plans, but that just a third had quantified targets with deadlines.
Climate action takes three key forms: cutting emissions to limit the impacts, adapting to the effects that can not be avoided, and funding rebuilding in communities struck by impacts that can not be adapted to.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...e-climate-carnage-without-surge-in-funding-un
Most people in the West have done nothing at all to combat global warming.
Action will have to be forced upon them . Democracy will be a victim.