New Zealand’s Dr Rod Carr has just completed a two day meeting of the United Nations high level expert group advising the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on their progress.
The secretary general had just returned from Pakistan where climate change induced flooding is covering a third of the country which has displaced over 30 million people.
"During the briefing with the 18 member expert group, the secretary general reminded our group of the importance of our work in assessing the credibility of non-state actor claims to be net zero or on a pathway to net zero," Dr Carr says.
"Evidence is mounting every day that the scientists are right and have been right for decades.
"Rising sea levels, ocean acidification, ocean warming, melting ice at the poles, glaciers receding, record high temperatures on land, record breaking droughts, inland inundation, changing migration patterns for birds, insects, mammals and fish, increased frequency and intensity of wild fires, mounting insurance losses and rising premiums are all symptoms of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Eighty percent of the problem is caused by the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and fossil gas into the open air.
"Claims of net zero, if not robust and scientifically accurate, are doing great harm by misleading investors, consumers and regulators."
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