Global warming does not stop due to the United Nations' new corona countermeasures outing restrictions 8:08 on September 10
The United Nations issued a report that global warming has not stopped, despite the temporary reduction in global carbon dioxide emissions due to restrictions on the outbreak of new coronavirus measures, and called for measures.
UN Secretary-General Guterres released a report on global warming compiled by WMO = World Meteorological Organization at a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York on the 9th.
As a result, the country's out-of-going regulations, etc. as measures against the new coronavirus, mean that the world's carbon dioxide emissions for the year will be reduced by 4% to 7% compared to the previous year. I will.
Of these, we estimate that in early April, daily emissions decreased by 17% compared to the previous year.
However, he pointed out that the amount of emissions has returned rapidly with the resumption of economic activities.
In addition, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which causes global warming, continues to rise, and the world average temperature for the five years from 2016 to this year is the highest in the history of observation.
Secretary-General Guterres said that global warming has not stopped, and called on each country to take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as investment in renewable energy, in order to recover the economy.