‘Immediate action needed to limit global warming’
The Hindu
A new climate change report out on Thursday shows that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will be impossible without immediate, largescale emissions cuts, the UN chief said.The ‘United in
A new climate change report out on Thursday shows that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will be impossible without immediate, largescale emissions cuts, the UN chief said.
The ‘United in Science 2021’ report, published by a range of UN agencies and scientific partners just weeks before the COP26 climate summit, said that climate change and its impacts were accelerating. And a temporary reduction in carbon emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had done nothing to slow the relentless warming, the report found.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report’s findings were “an alarming appraisal of just how far off course we are” in meeting the Paris goals. COP26will be held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.