🔴 The world has the money and the means to tackle climate change but still isn’t doing so, UN scientists have said after the publication of a landmark report
The world has the money and the means to tackle climate change but still isn’t doing so, UN scientists have said after the publication of a landmark report., while the impacts on sea levels are set to persist for thousands of years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .climate conference in 2015, when the 1.5°C target was agreed. Under currently implemented policies, the world will warm between 2.2 and 3.
“The most important message is that we do have the solutions. We do know how to do transformative adaptation. We do know how to incentivize the emission reduction. And that, I think, is the most important message,” said Dr Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College and an author of the report.
If that urgency does not arise, the report warns, the costs will only increase while more human and natural systems will cease to be viable. It will be the last major report from the IPCC for several years, and when the world next hears from the UN body it will likely be clear whether the world has failed to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
The majority of the IPCC publication, as its name suggests, is a synthesis of the work done by the IPCC over its most recent cycle, which began in 2015.