14.04.2019 - 20:10 [ theGuardian.com ]

Global warming could create ‚greater migratory pressure from Africa‘: David Attenborough uses IMF speech to warn of human consequences of inaction on climate change

(11. April 2019)

Speaking at the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, the broadcaster and environmentalist said that on current trends parts of the world would soon become uninhabitable and populations would be be forced to move.

Attenborough, 92, said it was vital that countries met their commitments made in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to reduce carbon emissions because time was fast running out for the planet.