Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presents final report on climate change

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More than 600 representatives from science and politics have discussed the document line by line since Monday. The deliberations should have ended on Friday, but lasted until Sunday evening. The report will be presented on Monday at 2 p.m. in Interlaken, Switzerland.

This synthesis report is one of the foundations for the upcoming climate negotiations, so governments clearly have an interest in what they want to see emphasized and what not. It is the final document of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th cycle of assessments. Six individual reports have been published in the cycle since 2018. It should summarize all findings and present them in a focused way. The next IPCC reports are expected in five to seven years.

Measures are not enough

The core statements are already clear: climate change is happening faster than expected and current climate protection measures are nowhere near sufficient to limit warming to 1.5 or at least to less than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Poorer countries need much more financial support to prevent climate-damaging emissions and to prepare for the already greatly increased risks of droughts, heat waves and floods.

“What it says has been scientifically established, that is no longer in doubt,” said Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, the German news agency. “What is made of it is another question.” Marotzke has contributed to several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, but is not involved in this report. By his own statements, he is pessimistic that governments are now doing what is urgently needed: massive reductions in emissions as quickly as possible. “The attitude is often, why should I make an effort if others don’t?” But that is fatal. “This is an extremely difficult collaborative problem.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body with representatives from the 195 member states. He has science collect all climate change findings about every seven years. The next cycle starts in the summer.

(SDA)

Source: Blick