The latest report (2022) of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that a small window for tackling climate change risks by limiting average global atmospheric temperature to 1.5 degree C and thereby avoiding a major catastrophe is closing fast if the international community did not take action. With this war the contemporary historians are saying that a new world order is emerging and that cold war 2.0 has started. The global climate change reversal action is apparently on back burner though international conferences and deliberations continue as rituals. However, as a new world order is setting in with international rivalries among big powers, regional conflicts and economic uncertainties, the international cooperation in combating climate change has become fragile. Also expectations of the less developed countries to get financial and technological support from developed countries have not been met.
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