ScienceGlacier melt and sea-level rise will continue: We cannot leave this to the next generation

Inger Andersen, UN under-secretary-general and executive director of the UN Environment Programme, says decades of what she calls “carbon procrastination” have made a breach of 1.5°C unavoidable. The issue is now how far temperatures exceed it, for how long, and with what consequences for vulnerable societies and ecosystems. Adaptation is as important as mitigation because glacier loss and sea-level rise will continue even as emissions decline.

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