{"650894":{"#nid":"650894","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"UN chief urges \u0027rapid\u0027 emission cuts to curb climate change","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAhead of the annual United Nations\u0026nbsp;General Assembly meeting next week, U.N. Secretary-General\u0026nbsp;Antonio Guterres warned governments that climate change is proceeding faster than predicted,\u0026nbsp;and fossil fuel emissions have already bounced back from a pandemic dip.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Power Chair and\u0026nbsp;ADVANCE\u0026nbsp;Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was the lead author for the recent U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. Cobb says\u0026nbsp;limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius isn\u0026#39;t out of reach yet, but \u0026quot;this new report is a stark reminder of the difference between the emissions pathways required to achieve that target, and the reality on the ground. Simply put, we are way off course.\u0026rdquo; (This story also appears in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/antonio-guterres-geneva-michael-mann-united-states-paris-b1921147.html\u0022\u003EThe Independent\u003C\/a\u003E; registration required.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-09-17 19:20:32","changed_gmt":"2021-09-17 19:20:32","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Zachary Engel","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/un-chief-urges-rapid-emission-cuts-to-curb-climate-change\/2021\/09\/16\/59fe7422-16bc-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"33791","name":"kim cobb"},{"id":"2628","name":"united nations"},{"id":"188447","name":"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"},{"id":"843","name":"greenhouse gas emissions"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}