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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations The only body that studies climate change science will be releasing a major report on the effects of climate change and why it is so important to act now.
The report, which will focus on ‘Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability’, is expected to show how climate impacts are already wreaking havoc across the globe and how, if not taken more seriously, more lives and more livelihoods would be lost. This report will focus on the challenges and solutions that can be used to address these risks and minimize vulnerability in each of the world’s regions, cities, and other habitats.
The report’s Summary for Policymakers (around forty pages) contains information and data gleaned from the most recent research by some of top minds in natural, economic, and social sciences. This report, which is part a series of reports produced every six to 7 years, was contributed by more than 270 scientists from 67 different countries.
The current set of reports, officially referred to as “The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment” (AR6) Cycle, are the first since the Paris Agreement was passed. Climate change 2015 — A global framework to support climate policies, solutions, and actions. The marathon two-week session began February 14th and saw scientists via a virtual meeting discuss the contribution of Working Group II to the AR6.
This second installment of the AR6 integrates stronger natural, social, and economic sciences. It highlights the importance of social justice as well as diverse forms of knowledge, such as indigenous and local.
Debra Roberts (IPCC Working Group II) explained the importance and significance of the report.
She described the report as a “very long coproduction process in which the policy environment and scientific environment work together to decide on the key questions, the type of knowledge we need to answer those questions, and to put it into a format that can be used in our day to-to-day decision-making.”
The IPCC had already released the August 2021 report of the Working Group I. The Working Group III report will be published in April 2019. The Synthesis Report will be published in September 2022.
The Chair of the Panel Hoesung Le called the Sixth Assessment Cycle, which was opened at the 55th Session, “the most ambitious in IPCC history,” simply due to the fact that “the stakes are never higher.”
Why? The Physical Science Basis, which is the first in the series, explains why. It reveals that the recent climate changes have been unprecedented over many centuries and many thousands of years.
The world is not on track today to avoid extremes Climate changeScientists warn that global warming of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius will be exceeded if there is no significant reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emissions during the next decade.
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