Study “Climate Change 2023: Synthetic Report”, released on monday after a long week IPCC during the session in Interlaken, focusing on current and expected losses and damages that are expected to continue into the future, which are having a particularly heavy impact on the most vulnerable people and ecosystems. thai.
Temperatures have risen 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the result of more than a century of fossil fuel burning, as well as uneven and unsustainable land and energy use. This has led to more frequent and more intense extreme weather events has caused increasingly dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world.
Food and water insecurity due to climate are expected to increase with increased warming: when risks are combined with other adverse events, such as pandemics or conflict, they become even more difficult to manage.
Time is short, but there is a clear path ahead
If temperatures are kept at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, then deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will be needed across all sectors this decade. stated reports. Emissions need to be reduced nowand be cut by nearly half by 2030, if this goal has any chance of being achieved.
The solution proposed by IPCC is “climate-resilient development,” which involves integrating climate change adaptation measures with actions to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in a way that provides broader benefits.
Examples include access to clean energy, low-carbon electrification, promotion of zero and low-carbon transportation, and improved air quality: the economic benefits to everyone’s health from air quality improvement would be close to or even greater than the cost of reducing or avoiding emissions
“The greatest benefit in welfare can come from Prioritize climate risk reduction for low-income and marginalized communitiesChristopher Trisos, one of the report’s authors said. “Accelerated climate action will only happen if there is a multifold increase in financing. Insufficient and inappropriate financing is holding back progress.”
Government is the key
The power of governments to reduce barriers to greenhouse gas emissions reductions, through public funding and clear signals to investors, and to replicate policy measures already established. testing, highlighted in the report.
Changes in food, electricity, transport, industry, buildings and land use are highlighted as important ways to cut emissions, as well as transition to a low-carbon lifestyle that improves health. health and welfare.
“Conversion changes are more likely to succeed where there is trust, where everyone works together to prioritize risk reduction, and where the benefits and burdens are shared equitably,” said IPCC President Hoesung Lee.
“This summary report emphasizes urgently take more ambitious action and show that, if we act now, we can still ensure a sustainable future worth living for all.”
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The Muara Laboh Geothermal Power Project is helping propel Indonesia towards its climate change mitigation and renewable energy goals.
UN chief announces plan to accelerate progress
In a video message released on Monday, the UN Secretary General António Guterres described the report as a “Instructions on how to defuse the climate time bomb.”
Climate action is needed on all fronts: “everything, everywhere, all at once,” he declared, referring to this year’s Best Picture Academy Award winner.
The head of the United Nations proposed to the G20 group of highly developed economies a “Climate Solidarity Pact,” in which all major emitters will work harder to cut emissions, and richer countries will mobilize financial and technical resources to support emerging economies in their efforts. to ensure that global temperatures do not rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Mr. Guterres announced that he is presenting a plan to accelerate efforts to achieve the Treaty through the Accelerator Agenda, which includes leaders of developed countries committing to net zero as close as possible by the end of the year. 2040 and developing countries as close as possible to 2050.
Agenda call for ending coal use, not generating net electricity by 2035 for all developed countries and by 2040 for the rest of the world, and cease all licensing or financing of new oil and gas and any expansion of existing oil and gas reserves .
These measures must be accompanied by safeguards for the most vulnerable communitiesexpand financing and adaptive capacity as well as loss and damage, and promote reforms to ensure Multilateral Development Banks provide more aid and loans, and mobilize full private financial resources.
Looking ahead to the upcoming UN climate conference, scheduled to be held in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December, Mr. Guterres said he hoped all G20 leaders would commit Ambitious contributions to the new economy are determined nationally to include all greenhouse gases, and show their absolute emissions reduction targets for 2035 and 2040.
Journey to net-zero ‘accelerated’
Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) point at signs that the journey to net-zero is accelerating as the world heads to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP28 in the United Arab Emirates.
“That includes the Inflation Reduction Act in the US, described ‘The most important law in history to tackle the climate crisis‘ and the European Union’s latest Green Deal Industry Plan, a strategy to make the bloc the home of clean technology and green jobs,” he said.
“Now is the time for a era of co-investment in bold solutions. As the narrow window of opportunity to halt climate change rapidly closes, the choices that governments, the private sector and communities are currently making — or not making — will go down in history. “
