São Paulo – A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations published on Monday (20) points out the pace and scale of the current plans are insufficient to tackle climate change. The document underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, “if we act now, we can still secure a livable sustainable future for all.”
IPCC was created in 1988 by the UN Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It’s charged with advancing scientific knowledge about climate change, assessing its risks its potential impacts, and possible options for prevention.
“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 report pointed out. Keeping warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels requires cutting emissions by almost half by 2030.
“More than a century of burning fossil fuels as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use has led to global warming of 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels. This has resulted in more frequent and more intense extreme weather events that have caused increasingly dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world,” the document pointed out.
Reaching the climate change targets, IPCC says, requires greenhouse gas emissions reductions in a variety of ways, like access to clean energy and technologies, low-carbon electrification, and public transport incentives.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
