Met Office: Human influence on global temperature rise ‘driving planet into

To effectively solve the climate crisis we must simultaneously tackle the root causes of poverty and hunger globally.

It also showed that such climate-related shocks could lead to a few irreversible losses that will put a large section of people into poverty. However, a 4C change – which would be the likely scenrio at the current rate of increase – would impact more than 600 million. “We need to ensure that as the costs of clean energy fall, countries can be more ambitious with their climate targets”, the Minister said. Their new report details that extreme weather and rising seas could change the lifestyles of many all over the world.

“As the world continues to warm in the coming decades, however, we will see more and more years passing the one degree marker – eventually it will become the norm”.

Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nation’s Climate Change Secretariat told the news conference that the ministers maintained that it was entirely possible to reach an agreement despite the complexities and challenges.

The impact of climate change on food prices in Africa could be as high as 12 percent in 2030 and 70 percent by 2080-a crippling blow to those nations where the food consumption of the poorest households amounts to more than 60 percent of total spending, according to the WB report.

Catherine McKenna was sworn in last week as Canada’s first Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

The Met Office’s Hadley Center for Climate Science, in conjunction with the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, based its estimate on temperatures from January through September, which show the global mean surface temperature at 1.02°C above pre-industrial levels. In India, 45 million more people could be pushed into poverty by 2030 by a combination of agricultural shocks and disease.

It said in the 52 countries where data was available, 85 per cent of the population live in countries where poor people are more exposed to drought than the average.

“Unfortunately, there is still too often a disconnect between Bank research and its own practices”.

“It is crucial that the bank’s lending policies, including those of the bank’s private-sector arm, react to their own warnings by mainstreaming climate resilience programs and support equitable, low-carbon development”, she said.

Russia, a major oil producer, is seen as a deal-maker or -breaker in the years-long attempt to negotiate the world’s first truly universal pact to curb climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions.