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‘If we stick to the Paris Agreement to combat climate change, we may lose fewer than two out of every 10 plant and animal species on Earth by 2070.
‘This is a big problem, because the majority of plant and animal species occur in the tropics,’ Román-Palacios added.Humanity is about to reach the climate change ‘point of no return’ and our attempts to save the planet have been ‘utterly inadequate’, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last year.Speaking before the start of a two-week international climate conference in Madrid, the UN chief said rising temperatures are already causing chaos around the world.
Global warming ‘threatens the existence of human civilisations’ and we need to cut emissions immediately, researchers warned ‘The growing threat of rapid, irreversible changes means it is no longer responsible to wait and see. The situation is urgent and we need an emergency response.‘However, the rate at which they progress, and therefore the risk they pose, can be reduced by cutting our emissions.’Loss of Greenland ice sheet.Loss of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
‘If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization,’ the scientists wrote.
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