The report may paint a grim picture of accelerating climate change and subsequent threats
Close on the heels of floods in India, China and northern Europe and asphalt-melting heat waves in North America and southern Europe, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report is the first so-called assessment report since 2014.
The UN’s climate science panel will unveil its projections for temperature and sea-level rises less than three months before a crucial climate summit COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, even as heart-stopping images of fires and floods dominate news cycles worldwide.
The UN’s climate science panel will unveil its projections for temperature and sea-level rises less than three months before a crucial climate summit COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, even as heart-stopping images of fires and floods dominate news cycles worldwide
After two weeks of virtual negotiations, 195 nations approved the IPCC assessment of past and future warming in the form of a “summary for policymakers”.
The report will project global temperature changes until the end of the century under different emissions scenarios as now with increasingly sophisticated technology, scientists are able to measure climate change.
The text may paint a grim picture of accelerating climate change and subsequent threats.
It is also expected to reflect huge progress in so-called attribution science, which allows experts to link individual extreme weather events directly to man-made climate change.
Belgian climate physicist and former IPCC co-chair Jean-Pascal Ypersele, said, “I can testify that the authors of the #ClimateReport had the last word on every sentence in the SPM, which really was a Summary FOR (and not BY) policymakers.”
“This is going to be the starkest warning yet that human behaviour is alarmingly accelerating global warming and this is why COP26 has to be the moment we get this right,” COP26 President Alok Sharma said.