Global concentration of CO2 hits record high
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E-mail Xinhua, May 14, 2013
The UN climate change body warned on Monday that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the impacts of climate change after the world's carbon-dioxide concentration surpassed its highest level in 4 million years.
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The world's carbon-dioxide concentration surpasses its highest level in 4 million years. [File photo] |
Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said that the global concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest ever, which has already passed the 400 parts per million mark, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters at a daily news briefing.
The new measurement came from Mauna Loa, a volcano on the big island of Hawaii that has been monitoring the worldwide trend on carbon dioxide.
Figueres called for "a greatly stepped-up response" to climate change by all parts of society and said we have entered "a new danger zone," Nesirky said.
With this in mind, governments will meet for two-weeks starting on June 3 in Bonn, Germany, for the next round of climate change talks under the umbrella of the UNFCCC.
A central focus of the talks will be negotiations to build a new global climate agreement and to push for greater immediate climate action, according to Nesirky.
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