Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered the final part of their sixth assessment report warning that only immediate, drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to the world.
In 2018, IPCC highlighted the unprecedented scale of the challenge required to keep warming to 1.5°C. Five years later, that challenge has become even greater due to a continued increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The pace and scale of what has been done so far, and current plans, are insufficient to tackle climate change.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
The Synthesis Report observed warming and it’s causes highlighting: ‘Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and among individuals.’
Kaisa Kosonen, a climate expert at Greenpeace International, said: “This report is definitely a final warning on 1.5C. If governments just stay on their current policies, the remaining carbon budget will be used up before the next IPCC report [due in 2030].”
Greenpeace have taken this opportunity to highlight that whilst the situation is certainly bleak, our choices matter and we have an enormous opportunity to change our course. They are asking everyone to join the call for climate justice by demanding that fossil fuel companies stop their climate-wrecking activities and repair the damage they’ve caused.
Find out more about that here.
Within the IPPC report, scientists noted that there are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now.
“Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits,” said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. “This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all.”
Find out more about priorities in the North East of England to decarbonise the region at Net Zero North East England.
Posted: 22 March 2023 by Amy Coates
IPCC Synthesis Report: Act now or it’s too late
Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered the final part of their sixth assessment report warning that only immediate, drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to the world.
In 2018, IPCC highlighted the unprecedented scale of the challenge required to keep warming to 1.5°C. Five years later, that challenge has become even greater due to a continued increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The pace and scale of what has been done so far, and current plans, are insufficient to tackle climate change.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
The Synthesis Report observed warming and it’s causes highlighting: ‘Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and among individuals.’
Kaisa Kosonen, a climate expert at Greenpeace International, said: “This report is definitely a final warning on 1.5C. If governments just stay on their current policies, the remaining carbon budget will be used up before the next IPCC report [due in 2030].”
Greenpeace have taken this opportunity to highlight that whilst the situation is certainly bleak, our choices matter and we have an enormous opportunity to change our course. They are asking everyone to join the call for climate justice by demanding that fossil fuel companies stop their climate-wrecking activities and repair the damage they’ve caused.
Find out more about that here.
Within the IPPC report, scientists noted that there are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now.
“Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits,” said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. “This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all.”
Find out more about priorities in the North East of England to decarbonise the region at Net Zero North East England.
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