Climate change is a real threat, Cuban Foreign Minister warns

Havana, Apr 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez warned that climate change is a real threat, to which industrialized countries are turning their backs by failing to fulfill financial commitments for adaptation and mitigation actions.

April 11, 2024
09:32

The Foreign Minister stressed on the social network X that rising temperatures increase the risk of irreversible loss of marine and coastal ecosystems.

According to a report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), last March was also the warmest since records have been kept, with 1.58 degrees Celsius (°C) above the average for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period.

Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S, said March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records, surpassing both air temperature and ocean surface temperature, with the 10th consecutive record-breaking month.

According to a study by Utrecht University, published by The Conversation magazine, global warming will affect the Atlantic Ocean and its current system, leading to ocean collapse and climate change.

The future outlook for that large body of water would affect average temperatures in North America, parts of Asia, and Europe.

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