'It's not about taking our foot off the accelerator anymore—it's about slamming on the brakes,' says Oxfam's climate policy lead Nafkote Dabi of the new IPCC report. 'A warming planet is humanity's biggest emergency.'
, focused on physical science and impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, respectively. A synthesis document is forthcoming.by 278 authors from 65 nations and is based on over 18,000 papers and nearly 60,000 comments from countries and experts. The document emphasizes the need for systemic changes globally, including decarbonizing the energy sector, electrifying transportation, shifting to more plant-based diets, and restoring key ecosystems.
Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C is the more ambitious goal of the Paris agreement, which also has a 2°C target and has guided global climate policies and talks since it was finalized in late 2015. Describing 1.5°C as"a survival target" that"remains within our grasp, but just barely," Dabi highlighted the need for"a dramatic shift towards sustainable renewable energy." While warning thatfossil fuel production in response to Russia's war on Ukraine"is shortsighted folly," she noted that the costs of extreme weather exacerbated by human-caused global heating"are piling up" and"do not hit everyone equally.
"This monumental climate report is distressing but it is not surprising," she added."Scientists and the IPCC have been warning governments of this danger for decades. Our future lies in the decisions we make today. We cannot tackle climate change later. We must clamp down on emissions now or face more catastrophic climate disasters, season after season."
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