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A new United Nations report warns that current global climate commitments fall drastically short of halting dangerous levels of global warming. teleSUR

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00:00A United Nations report warns that current global climate commitments fall drastically short of halting the dangerous levels of global
00:07warming.
00:08Projections indicate that global greenhouse gas emissions are on track to decrease by only 6% by 2035,
00:17far below the 60% reduction mandated by the scientific community to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
00:25The UN highlighted a critical shortfall in climate financing required for vulnerable nations to adopt climate disasters.
00:34Meanwhile, international agency Oxfam denounced that elite investors profit from carbon-intensive industries
00:41while simultaneously extracting revenues from disaster reconstruction efforts,
00:47compounding global inequalities across the global south.

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