Published 18:33 IST, January 21st 2020
Greta Thunberg slams global inactions at World Economic Forum in Davos
Greta Thunberg at the 50th meeting of the WEF in Davos slammed global inactions and said that the richer countries need to get down to zero emissions faster.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg at 50th meeting of World Ecomic Forum in Davos slammed global inactions and said that richer countries need to get down to zero emissions much faster. She also ded that leers are t doing anything to deal with climate emergency. 17-year-old furr warned m that time was running out and without treating it as real crisis one cant solve issue.
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Ahe of a session devoted to climate change Swedish teen activist said that world needs to start listening to science and treat climate crisis with importance it deserves. In her speech, she explains that with today's emissions levels, ' richer countries need to get down to zero emissions much faster and n help poor countries to do same so that people in less fortunate parts of world can raise ir living standards'.
'Every fraction of a degree matters'
Swedish teenr came to fame by staging a regular strike at her school. In her speech, she explained that world has only a 67 per cent chance of limiting global aver temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. However, she explains that number is much lower, but it is necessary to make Paris Agreement to work on a global scale. She furr ds that approximate 67 per cent chance is one with highest odds given by IPCC and w we have less than 340 gigatons of CO2 left to emit in that budget to share fairly.
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She said, “And why is it so important to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius? Because even at 1-degree people are dying from climate change because that is what united science calls for, to avoid destabilising climate so that we have best possible chance to avoid setting off irreversible chain reactions. Every fraction of a degree matter”.
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18:33 IST, January 21st 2020