Cold Hard Facts about Hot Planet

It is now confirmed by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that the past year 2024 was the warmest year in the recorded history of the global temperatures. This conclusion emerged from the six international datasets, that WMO scientists worked with.

But that's not all, the past decade (2015-2024) was the warmest decade on the records in an extraordinary streak of record-breaking temperatures. Paris Climate agreement was signed by nearly all the countries in the world in 2015, the beginning of this very decade! The continued global warming since then clearly signals as to how the collective efforts of 8.5 billion people to save their own home, the Earth, is failing!

Clearly the first of the two targets, i.e. limiting the rise in earth's temperature to 1.5 deg C above the 1850-1900 average temperature, is breached in 2024, by 0.05 deg C. WMO tells us that 'long term temperature goal of Paris Climate Agreement is not yet dead but in grave danger. WMO graph below: 

What we do now?

There is no other way than the GHG-emission reduction to make the world Net-Zero by 2050 as indicated by IPCC.

Learning the skills for developing and adopting to new innovative non-fossil technologies, reducing the non-CO2 emissions of GHGs, massive afforestation, life-style change, seeking natural solutions and global cooperation are the key pathways to bring back the Paris Climate Agreement back on the track.

Green TERRE Foundation's Smart Campus Cloud Network of Universities have developed the mechanism to skill the youth in all above pathways. It up-skills the university students through 'learning by doing' in Campus, it accelerates the pathways by networking among universities. It is the mechanism in operation that provides the human-capital for net Zero!

The stories in this Simply Smart issue is the evidence that there is hope. END