As world leaders descend on Egypt for the annual climate conference known this year as COP27, experts warn that the
world is not on track with meeting previous emissions-cutting goals.
Most countries aren't even close to keeping their commitments made in the 2015 Paris Accords, which called for keeping global warming below 2 C or ideally 1.5 C, according to a
report released in April by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Net-zero climate experts at the U.K.-based price comparison company Uswitch used an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called
Midjourney to find out what major cities in the world would look like 70 years from now in the worst- and best-case climate scenarios.
To uncover the potential consequences of not meeting climate goals, the green energy team collaborated with the research director of Oxford University's Net Zero initiative to analyze emission data and the latest IPPC report to "identify how each country will be most affected by climate change in 2100."
The researchers used Midjourney to predict the future of 20 well-known locations around the world. They include Toronto, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Tokyo, Agra, Auckland, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Dubai, Edinburgh, Giza, Kruger National Park (South Africa), London, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Moscow.
