UN Report Calls for Urgent Climate Action

A UN Report released this week contained even more dismal news about the climate crisis. Find out why the UN chief responded by saying, “It’s time to end the relentless — and senseless — war on nature.”

I’ve been hearing about the need for urgent climate action throughout my adult life. I was already established in my career back in the 1980s, when the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Like everything at the UN, the IPCC is an organization of member countries. It’s an association, and like all associations, its success depends on the commitment and involvement of its members.

The IPCC has just released what it calls the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) . This AR6 Synthesis is the latest summary of what we know about climate change, its affects, its risks and how to prepare for them.

As Always, UN Report is Dismal

As always, the news in the UN report is dismal. First of all, if anyone still had any doubts, the report lets us know that, “Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse…