The main challenge for the next decade will be climate change, said the Special Representative of the President of Russia for Relations with International Organizations to achieve the goals of sustainable development Anatoly Chubais.
“For several years now, climate forecasts are becoming more gloomy. But even on this background, the new report of the UN looks completely frightening …”, “wrote Chubais in Facebook, his words leads the Russian edition of the” look. “
According to him, the climate is undergoing accelerated changes, which there were no hundreds of thousands of years, some of them are irreversible, and human fault is unconditional.
Also, Chubais noted that the worst news is that even the most optimistic predictions are not stacked in the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement: “The planet is heated faster, and the main direct consequence is a forced refusal of the largest economies from oil and gas fuel.”
Special Representative of the Russian president added that without immediate and sharp reduction in emissions, the average temperature can increase more than two degrees by the end of the century. “Humanity has 10 years left to try to correct, including abandoning oil and gas,” Chubais believes.