The U.N.’s yearly climate summit COP27 kicked off this week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with a shockingly bleak message from Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing. Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing, global temperatures keep rising, and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.”
To underscore his dire point, he added, “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”
If that weren’t bleak enough, in the lead up to COP27, the U.N. also released a report that plainly stated that there is now “no credible pathway” to achieve the lofty goal of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (though the 2 degrees C goal is still within reach). There would need to be a radical transformation of society in order for this to happen, the report said.
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