Climate change will be grabbing United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) focus in next week, stated reports. re will be climate strikes, climate summits, climate debates, a dire climate science report, climate pledges by countries and businesses, promises of climate financial help and more, over coming week. It will also include climate poetry, film and music. “We’re about to start an extraordinary series of events over next few days,” said Rachel Kyte, special representative on sustainable energy for United Nations secretary-general. “ climate emergency is being declared by people, and especially young people on streets world over. And this is about an appropriate response to that emergency,” she ded.

Grabbing UNGA's focus 

United Nations climate summit is called by UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres on September 23 to tackle climate change and to accelerate actions on Paris Agreement. UN chief said that he will be pressuring countries to promise to reduce carbon pollution even more than y did in landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement. se next steps were t due until 2020, but Guterres wants m earlier and he wants m to be harsher. Essentially, he’s hoping that by mid-century world will be ding more heat-trapping gases to Earth’s atmosphere. Hundreds of businesses, cities, states and organizations will also be at meeting to pledge ir own pollution cuts and offer financial help to poorer nations trying to shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources. He said idea is to come out of summit, t with all problems solved “but with enhanced momentum.”

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Climate Change dignitaries' statement

John Reilly, an MIT ecomist who has been working on global warming issues for about 40 years, says he’s never seen a busier or more important time. “This is a new milestone in trying to move ahe on climate change because we have both attention of international organizations and governments and activism by people,” Reilly said.  burst of events comes as scientists say world’s climate is getting even wilder, hotter and more dangerous. “We are seeing more impacts of climate disruption because we are pushing climate furr and furr from its natural state,” said Stanford University environmental sciences chief Chris Field.

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Climate change strike 

Activists on Friday were launching a series of climate strikes, with thousands of youths walking out of class in United States and around globe. And y plan to strike again on Sept. 27. “I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to scientists,” Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who drives climate strike movement, told a United States House committee this week. “I want you to unite behind science and n I want you to take action.” That les to a first United Nations Youth Climate Summit on Saturday, where young activists will make ir demands, including more construction of new fossil fuel power plants, to world leers. “ reality is my generation has been committed to a planet that is collapsing,” said U.S. youth climate activist Jamie Margolin of Seattle. “Youth climate activism should t have to exist.”

On Monday, leers from across world will gar at climate summit in New York. U.N. chief wants world’s carbon pollution to be cut by 45% in next dece. “I told leers t to come with fancy speeches, but with concrete commitments,” Guterres said. “We expect countries to commit to carbon neutrality in 2050.” Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulze said her country is aiming for 100% renewable energy, phasing out coal by 2038 at latest and changing how it is heating houses. “We must act w if we want to avoid climate catastrophe,” Schulze said. “We are t alone. Every country needs to act.” German government will present a plan Friday for how it wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Europe’s biggest ecomy more than half by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

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Paris Agreement

At U.N, all eyes will be on President Donald Trump, who is planning to pull United States out of Paris agreement. He has yet to commit to speaking at climate part of U.N. meeting, while or leers such as France’s Emmanuel Macron have. On same day, Trump and or leers are in New York, climate activists plan to try to block intersections in Washington. On Wednesday, U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a special science report on climate change’s effects on oceans and world’s ice and outlook for seas to rise higher than previously thought. se years-in--making massive research reports which have to be unanimously approved by nations across globe, grab attention and often increase worries about warming.

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NSID on Arctic sea ice

In next few days, National Sw and Ice Data Center in United States will anunce that Arctic sea ice eir tied for second or hit second by itself for lowest summer ice amount. This is after a record-setting melt and heat over Greenland this summer. Summer this year, tied for  hottest in rrn Hemisphere on record, according to U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ministration. According to University of Michigan environment dean, Jonathan Overpeck said. “Record floods and rains, unprecedented heatwaves, countries being devastated by climate supercharged storms, water supplies dwindling due to hotter drought, an Arctic meltdown and coasts being submerged around globe. All were predicted years ago, and all are w happening."

Since first time global leers met to discuss climate change and or environmental issues in June 1992, world has warmed by nearly a degree (0.54 degrees Celsius) and carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere have gone up 15 per cent, according to AA data. Three of four biggest annual increases in heat-trapping carbon dioxide were in 2016, 2015 and 2018.

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