Climate report: ‘It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C’
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The window to stop dangerous climate change is closing, but solutions to slash emissions in the next decade are here now, say IPCC experts.
By Lottie Morgan, Siobhan Stack-Maddox, Nicole Kuchapski, Katrine Petersen, Hana Amer
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest Working Group lll Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, focuses on solutions to climate change – what can be done to stop emissions rising.
It shows that levels of greenhouse gas emissions are now the highest they have ever been and that, without deep and immediate cuts in emissions, limiting global warming to 1.5°C – as agreed in the Paris Agreement – will be beyond reach.
Imperial’s Professor Jim Skea is Co-Chair of Working Group III, the group of 278 authors responsible for the report. ‘It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C,’ he said. ‘Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.’
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