Decision-makers have a responsibility to prevent the harmful effects of climate change on civilisation, Hungary’s President János Áder said in Paris.
Addressing the UN’s 21st climate conference, he said that in 25 years’ time the next generation will demand to know why today’s world failed to curb the negative effects of climate change, which by then will pose a direct threat to civilisation.
Today’s grandchildren will ask why scientific results had been ignored, when it was known that greenhouse gas emissions in 2015 were as high as never before for 800,000 years. It is also known that 3 million years ago in the history of the planet there had been another period when carbon dioxide levels were similar and the impact of that is also known: temperatures 3 degrees warmer and sea levels 9 metres higher, Áder said.
