IPCC sounds another climate warning

  • March 6, 2022
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IPCC sounds another climate warning

TOPIC: Environment

Context- On February 27, the IPCC issued a major report that reviewed the scientific evidence on natural, ecological, social and economic spheres, concluding that climate change has already produced irreversible losses and damage to land, coastal and marine ecosystems.

Concept-

What are the key features of the report?

  • The report titled “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” is among three specialist publications that contribute to the overall Assessment Report 6 of the IPCC due in September 2022.
  • It includes people living along coastlines that are threatened by rising sea levels and extreme weather events such as cyclones and floods.
  • Taken as a whole, less than 15% of the world’s land, 21% of the freshwater and 8% of the ocean are protected.

What are the threats?

  • Food production as a fundamental determinant of human well­being and progress faces a climate threat.
  • Food security risks due to climate change “will be more severe, leading to malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, concentrated in Sub­Saharan Africa, South Asia, Central and South America and Small Islands.”
  • In the current situation, between 3% and 14% of all species on earth face a very high risk of extinction at even 1.5°C.
  • South Asia is a hotspot, as it has among the largest absolute numbers of people displaced by extreme weather, along with South East Asia and East Asia, followed by sub­Saharan Africa.

About IPCC:

  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international body for assessing the science related to climate change.
  • It was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.
  • The IPCC does not conduct its own research.
  • IPCC reports are neutral, policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive.
Environment IPCC sounds another climate warning