The U.N.’s top climate official on Monday urged governments to stop using their “delaying, delaying tactics” and instead implement rapid, widely publicized action to stem and adjust to global warming.
Amid a season of extreme weather and new record highs, Patricia Espinosa warned that no nation has ever been safe from the consequences of climate change.
The Associated Press news agency reported Monday that Greece has created a new ministry to tackle the impacts of the climate crisis after the country’s worst heat surge in decades.
“ambitious, rapid, widespread, transformative efforts”Patricia Espinosa
Less than three months before this year’s U.N. climate summit, Espinosa called on countries who signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement to support “ambitious, quick, widespread, transformational efforts” to limit global temperature rise and prepare for the inevitable consequences of a warming world.
Espinosa’s remarks came as the office opened a new floating office, the Global Center on Adaption, in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.
“a perfect example of how we can adapt to the changing climate,”Mark Rutte
As Dutch Prime Secretary Mark Rutte called the office “perfect example of how we can adapt to the changing climate,” he emphasized that the building is off-grid, CO2-neutral, self-contained, and ready to adapt to future rise in sea level.
Such high-tech facilities are unfortunately far from millions of poor countries, and leaders have been asking industrial nations to absorb some of the costs of adapting to climate change.
It is beyond the reach of millions of poor-country citizens, whose leaders want advanced countries to pay some of the costs of adapting to climate change.
With COP26 rapidly approaching, all efforts must be aligned to support the #ParisAgreement, including the NAPs – the main international instrument for adaptation planning & implementation.
My message to the @GCAdaptation High-Level Dialogue on climate adaptation today. pic.twitter.com/mTGj2ays8y
— Patricia Espinosa C. (@PEspinosaC) September 6, 2021
Global leaders gathered today for the @GCAdaptation High-Level Dialogue: An Adaptation Acceleration Imperative for COP26, establishing that the success of #COP26 will be determined by whether adaptation is elevated to an equal priority with mitigation.https://t.co/Vjqehe06wa pic.twitter.com/oOnO9dYHXg
— Global Center on Adaptation (@GCAdaptation) September 6, 2021
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