Humanity celebrates this March 26 world climate day, declared by the un framework convention on climate change in 1992 to raise awareness of its importance and the influence of global warming. teleSUR
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00:00 Humanity celebrates this March 26th World Climate Day, declared by the United Nations Framework
00:06 Convention on Climate Change in 1992 to raise awareness of its importance and the influence
00:12 of global warming. According to the latest flagship report, the State of the World's Climate 2023,
00:19 launched by the World Meteorological Organization at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva,
00:25 unprecedented weather extremes were recorded worldwide last year and numerous records were
00:30 broken. Climate is defined as the set of weather and atmospheric conditions in a geographic area
00:38 over an extended period of time, with variables such as wind,
00:42 precipitation, humidity, atmospheric pressure and temperature.
00:51 The year 2023 set new records for every single climate indicator. This annual report shows that
01:02 the climate crisis is the defining challenge that humanity faces. It is closely intertwined
01:11 with inequality crisis, as witnessed by growing food insecurity, population displacement
01:18 and biodiversity loss. Glaciers loss was the largest on record last year. These are the water
01:26 towers of the world. They are our fresh water reservoirs. Sea ice depletion in the Antarctica
01:35 was one of the major climate facts recorded in 2020.