‘No lifeboat to safety’: UN chief Guterres urges global action as Pacific faces sea-level crisis – Times of India
At the Pacific Islands Forum, UN Secretary-General António Guterres reported that sea-surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). He issued a warning that Pacific island nations are in "grave danger" from rising sea levels and urged immediate global action to address this urgent crisis. “This is a crazy situation. Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making, a crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety. But if we save the Pacific, we also save ourselves.” said Guterres. A second UN report warns that the climate crisis and rising sea levels are urgent threats to Pacific island states, with futur...