The Yorkshire Post Climate Change summit has been taking place in Leeds today.
Angela Terry, founder CEO of One Home, which helps UK citizens adapt to a low cost, low carbon lifestyle and extreme weather events, was among the speakers and highlighted recent comments by the UN to delegates.
Earlier this week, the UN warned there is an “emissions canyon” between current policies and what is required to stop the Earth heating beyond safe limits.
It said international decarbonisation targets would still leave the world almost 3C hotter by 2100 than it was before the industrial era.
Scientists have frequently warned that going beyond 1.5C and 2C, key targets set in the Paris Agreement eight years ago, could set off irreversible tipping points that would heat the planet beyond human control and lead to catastrophic rises in heat, extreme weather and sea-level rise.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described this “emissions canyon” as “a failure of leadership, a betrayal of the vulnerable and a massive missed opportunity”.
