Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The disastrous Coronavirus pandemic has led to the disparaging mode destructing the common livelihood and also let to slow down the economic situation worldwide. But even it has failed to put a full stop on the climate change drivers and stimulating impacts, as informed by the UN report.
According to the recent UN report, last year was one of the three warmest years on record with the global average temperature being about 1.2 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial level. The information was stated by the report on the State of the Global Climate 2020, compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and a comprehensive network of partners.
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The report further informed that the concentrations of the major greenhouse gases continued to increase in 2019 and 2020. And as a result of the global Coronavirus pandemic, the economic shutdown tentatively discouraged new greenhouse gas emissions.
But had no perceptible impact on atmospheric concentrations and meanwhile, the global mean sea level continued to increase in 2020 and at a higher rate recently, partly due to the increased melting of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Ocean acidification and deoxygenation have continued, impacting ecosystems, marine life and fisheries.
The increasing climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts and storms, combined with the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 in a double hit to more than 50 million people, the report said, quoting data from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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Driven by conflict and economic slowdown as well as climate variability and extreme weather events, food insecurity, after decades of decline, is now increasing.
As per the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and UN World, Food Program, the number of people classified under crisis, emergency and famine conditions had increased to almost 135 million people across 55 countries in 2019.
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