Volker Turk has criticized world leaders for thinking only in the short term when addressing the climate crisis. Speaking at a UN Human Rights Council debate on the right to food, Turk said extreme weather events are destroying crops, livestock and ecosystems, making it impossible for communities to rebuild and feed themselves. \u201cIn 2021, more than 828 million people faced hunger. And climate change is projected to put up to 80 million more people at risk of hunger by the middle of this century,\u201d Turk said. Our environment is burning. It\u2019s melting. It\u2019s flooding. It\u2019s draining. It\u2019s drying. It\u2019s dying,\u201d he said, evoking a \u201cdystopian future.\u201d \u201cAddressing climate change is a human rights issue\u2026 there\u2019s still time to act. But that time is now,\u201d he said. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries agreed to limit global warming to \u201cwell below\u201d two degrees Celsius above average levels measured between 1850 and 1900 \u2013 and, if possible, to 1.5\u00b0C. The average global temperature in 2022 was 1.15\u00b0C above the 1850-1900 average.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Volker Turk has criticized world leaders for their short-term approach to the climate crisis. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council\u2019s debate on the right to food, Turk said extreme weather events are destroying crops, livestock and ecosystems, making it impossible for communities to rebuild and feed themselves. \u201eIn 2021, more than 828 million people faced hunger. [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}