The world has an even tighter timeline for avoiding catastrophic climate change, according to the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The sixth 'synthesis report' released Monday used findings from three expert assessments published between 2021 and 2022 to give a concise brief for policymakers as they prepare for the next round of climate negotiations.
Emissions are cumulative, so continuing to increase emissions in the next few years means faster, deeper cuts are needed in later years. With each passing year, that time window in which later action can avert catastrophe gets smaller.
“They're saying this is the least costly pathway,” the expert reviewer explained. “Emissions could peak in 2028 or 2029, but if you wait that long it becomes economically ruinous to get on the pathway.”“It shows that if we overshoot, the impacts are catastrophic,” Lili Fuhr, deputy director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law in Berlin, told Yahoo News about the report.may be triggered, according to the IPCC, once one gets above 1.
"Right now, climate change is catastrophic for a few people in a few places, like Hurricane Harvey," the expert reviewer said, referring to the 2017 Category 4 hurricane that devastated Texas and Louisiana, and whichIf we breach 1.5°C, the IPCC reports, it will mean"widespread catastrophe for many people and many places," the expert reviewer said.
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