Copy LinkUN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, announced a disaster action plan on Monday for an early warning system against climate change. Speaking at the UN climate summit COP27 in Egypt’s seaside city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Guterres said the plan calls for initial new targeted investments of $ 3.1 billion between 2023 and 2027 – roughly six per cent of the requested $50 billion in adaptation financing. “Vulnerable communities in climate hotspots are being blindsided by cascading climate disasters without any means of prior alert,” Guterres said. “Countries with limited early warning coverage have disaster mortality eight times higher than countries with high coverage. “People in Africa, South Asia, South and Central America, and the inhabitants of small island states are 15 times more likely to die from climate disasters.

Source: Libya Today November 09, 2022 08:26 UTC