The World Meteorological Organization’s annual report “United in Science” points to the still important share given to fossil fuels in today’s world.
After a summer marked by exceptional floods in Pakistan, prolonged extreme droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States, remarkable heat waves in Europe and record-breaking forest fires in France, the annual report “United in science” of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), published on Tuesday, takes on a particular flavor. “The number of disasters related to weather, climate and water has increased fivefold over the past fifty years”, lamented Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations in a video message accompanying the release of the report. “Daily losses are over $200 million.”
“Wrong direction”
And the trend does not seem to be about to get better since “we are going in the wrong direction”, says the report, which points to the still significant share of fossil fuels in today’s world. In fact, despite a slowdown in greenhouse gas emissions…