The planet's temperature is destined to rise by 1,5 degrees between now and 2040. The alarm, which falls in the midst of a summer of fire which, after having devoured California and Sardinia, is consuming island after island Greece, comes from the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change. A United Nations organization in which scientists from 195 countries collaborate who have produced 14.000 field studies from which it emerges, in the words of Ko Barrett, vice president of the panel, that "climate change is now widespread everywhere and is advancing at an impressive speed" . Not only that: “It is now indisputable that the phenomenon is due to human intervention".
It is certainly not an absolute novelty, but the analysis in figures signed by 243 scientists is impressive. "Last May - we read - the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to 419, due to consumption of fossil fuels, cement production and the effect of deforestation in various parts of the planet. Never in 3,6 million years has such a level been reached. Meanwhile, the level of methane in the atmosphere is two and a half times above the values of the last century. To these macro considerations can be added the field investigations of the climate "detectives", the seven experts of WWAI (World Weather Activity) who have demonstrated that only human activity can be guilty of the unnatural heating of the town of Lytton in Canada (49,6 degrees in July) or Siberian Verkhovansk (38 degrees in what used to be a polar bear refuge).
Given these values, is the response of the scientific community, the world is now close to the point of no return. Drastic interventions capable of substantially reducing the use of fossil carbon can limit the drama, but in any case the planet's temperature will still rise by a degree and a half until 2040 and by 1,6 degrees by 2050 before inverting the curve . But if we continue with the current trend, is the warning of the report that will form the scientific basis for the Glasgow climate conference next November, temperatures will rise by 1,9 degrees by 2040, even by 3 degrees in 2060 and by 5,7 at the end of the century, when sea levels will be half a meter higher.
Here is the emergency that is conditioning (and will condition even more) the performance of the financial markets and politics. This applies to the automobile, where the US has just joined Europe with severe restrictions on combustion engines from 2030, as well as the most polluting industrial activities. Just as it involves services, starting with tourism, but the same is true for financial activities, from insurance to bonds, not just green ones.
