Paris: Nearly 200 nations gathered on Monday to face a question that will survive RussiaThe invasion of Ukraine: how do we stop Carbon Pollution is warming the planet and endangering life as we know it?
The answers are set to arrive after closed doors on April 4, virtual conversations approve the summary of a phonebook-sized report detailing options for drawing greenhouse gases and extracting them from thin air.
“The science is pretty clear, the effects are costly and escalating, but we still have some time to close the window and get ahead of the worst of them,” said Alden Meyer, a senior analyst at Climate and Energy Think. Tank E3G.
“This report will answer what we need if we are serious about getting there.”
In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlined the physics: changes in the frequency, duration and intensity of cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and other forms of extremes as well as global warming and sea level rise. . Season.
It was the first installment of the three-part assessment, the sixth since 1990. It estimated that Earth’s surface temperature would rise 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, perhaps within a decade.
The 1.5C limit on global warming – an aspirational goal of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement – has been adopted as a target by most of the world’s countries.
However, current carbon-cutting commitments under the treaty put us on a catastrophic path toward 2.7C warming by 2100.
Part Two of the 10,000-plus page report — described by a Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listed past and future climate impacts on human society and the natural world – as an “atlas of human suffering”.
Delaying climate action will severely reduce the chances of a “living future”, it has concluded.
Part three – spanning thousands of pages – aims to slow and stop warming, with separate chapters on key sectors where rapid and profound change is important: energy, transportation, industry, agriculture, among others.
“We are talking about a massive transformation of all major systems,” climate economist and co-author Celine Guivarch told AFP.
It also focuses on ways to curb carbon emissions by reducing demand, whether through making buildings more energy efficient or encouraging lifestyle changes, such as eating less beef and taking a week off around the world. Don’t fly half way in.
The report details more than a dozen technologies to take CO2 out of the air, which will be needed to replenish sectors – such as aviation and shipping – that by mid-century are still carbon pollutants.
“Many things have changed,” said Taryn Franson, an analyst at the World Resources Institute, since the last three-part report, which came out eight years ago.
The Paris Agreement – the first climate agreement in which all countries had promised to take action – was signed.
From droughts to fires to floods, the world has seen an endless climax of deadly climate impacts.
The price of renewable energy, the key to reducing emissions, has fallen below the cost of fossil fuels in most markets.
The IPCC “Solutions” report draws from hundreds of models presenting growth paths that keep Earth within the range of Paris temperature targets.
“There are scenarios that show high renewables and low nuclear, and scenarios that show the opposite,” Franson said.
“This report outlines those paths. Now it is up to our leaders to take it to heart.”
Meyer said, in addition to being involved in UN political talks, which resume at COP 27 in Egypt in November, the IPCC’s findings “are ongoing in the US and Europe around the need to transition away from Russian oil and gas.” will also be important for dialogue.” ,
The head of Ukraine’s IPCC delegation said this in a dramatic statement at a closed plenary meeting in February, days after Russian troops invaded his country.
“Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots – fossil fuels – and our dependence on them,” said Svitlana Krakowska, according to multiple sources.
A war in Ukraine is expected during the two-week IPCC talks starting Monday.
“This is a more pressing situation,” the mayor said. “I don’t know how it will go, but it’s worth a look.”
The answers are set to arrive after closed doors on April 4, virtual conversations approve the summary of a phonebook-sized report detailing options for drawing greenhouse gases and extracting them from thin air.
“The science is pretty clear, the effects are costly and escalating, but we still have some time to close the window and get ahead of the worst of them,” said Alden Meyer, a senior analyst at Climate and Energy Think. Tank E3G.
“This report will answer what we need if we are serious about getting there.”
In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlined the physics: changes in the frequency, duration and intensity of cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and other forms of extremes as well as global warming and sea level rise. . Season.
It was the first installment of the three-part assessment, the sixth since 1990. It estimated that Earth’s surface temperature would rise 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, perhaps within a decade.
The 1.5C limit on global warming – an aspirational goal of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement – has been adopted as a target by most of the world’s countries.
However, current carbon-cutting commitments under the treaty put us on a catastrophic path toward 2.7C warming by 2100.
Part Two of the 10,000-plus page report — described by a Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listed past and future climate impacts on human society and the natural world – as an “atlas of human suffering”.
Delaying climate action will severely reduce the chances of a “living future”, it has concluded.
Part three – spanning thousands of pages – aims to slow and stop warming, with separate chapters on key sectors where rapid and profound change is important: energy, transportation, industry, agriculture, among others.
“We are talking about a massive transformation of all major systems,” climate economist and co-author Celine Guivarch told AFP.
It also focuses on ways to curb carbon emissions by reducing demand, whether through making buildings more energy efficient or encouraging lifestyle changes, such as eating less beef and taking a week off around the world. Don’t fly half way in.
The report details more than a dozen technologies to take CO2 out of the air, which will be needed to replenish sectors – such as aviation and shipping – that by mid-century are still carbon pollutants.
“Many things have changed,” said Taryn Franson, an analyst at the World Resources Institute, since the last three-part report, which came out eight years ago.
The Paris Agreement – the first climate agreement in which all countries had promised to take action – was signed.
From droughts to fires to floods, the world has seen an endless climax of deadly climate impacts.
The price of renewable energy, the key to reducing emissions, has fallen below the cost of fossil fuels in most markets.
The IPCC “Solutions” report draws from hundreds of models presenting growth paths that keep Earth within the range of Paris temperature targets.
“There are scenarios that show high renewables and low nuclear, and scenarios that show the opposite,” Franson said.
“This report outlines those paths. Now it is up to our leaders to take it to heart.”
Meyer said, in addition to being involved in UN political talks, which resume at COP 27 in Egypt in November, the IPCC’s findings “are ongoing in the US and Europe around the need to transition away from Russian oil and gas.” will also be important for dialogue.” ,
The head of Ukraine’s IPCC delegation said this in a dramatic statement at a closed plenary meeting in February, days after Russian troops invaded his country.
“Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots – fossil fuels – and our dependence on them,” said Svitlana Krakowska, according to multiple sources.
A war in Ukraine is expected during the two-week IPCC talks starting Monday.
“This is a more pressing situation,” the mayor said. “I don’t know how it will go, but it’s worth a look.”