Climate change is now becoming uncontrollable in its current state, according to recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). Based on their findings, the solutions for the catastrophic and irreversible impacts of the shift in the planet's climate are already narrowing down to limited resolves.
IPCC Report Tells People To Act Now
European Commissioner for Climate Action Frans Timmermans delivers a speech on the Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report, during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on September 14, 2021.
The United Nations' climate analysis was curated by a team including 270 experts from over 67 participating countries. The evaluation from the IPCC was initially released in August 2021, with its second part published Monday, February 28. A third part of the study will be presented sometime in April.
The recent findings were relayed by representatives of the Sixth Assessment Report at the council's virtual press event. The goal of the summit is to demonstrate the possible changes that climate change gives to billions of human population.
The IPCC reports approximately 3.3 billion to 3.6 billion individuals reside in regions that are theorized as "highly vulnerable to climate change." The impacts of global warming are also distributed unequally, resulting in the most affected regions being cut off from available help that provides mitigations and adaptive measures.
UN secretary-general Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres said in the panel that the recent IPCC report serves as "an atlas of human suffering" and mirrors the consequences of failed climate leadership, Live Science reports.
The new IPCC report consolidated data from over 37,000 scientific papers that focus on droughts, wildfires, storms, heatwaves, and floods. The same natural phenomena were considered to have increased rates over the past few decades due to climate change.
The major impacts of these unstoppable events disrupt global food production, risks public health, destroy city infrastructures, and disturbance of fish and the vast aquaculture.
IPCC chair Hoesung Lee explained that the disruption is expected to worsen if actions to limit warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius are delayed. The report is a statement that reflects our inaction's consequences, Lee continued.
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Achieving 1.5 Degrees Celsius Cut and Other Adaptive Steps Against Climate Change
Pressing down warming levels to 1.5 degrees Celsius will cut off 40 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions, with a chance of the planet hitting net-zero emissions in the year 2050. However, Guterres presented the opposite, saying that the IPCC tracking estimated a 14 percent rise in emissions in the next ten years.
The IPCC report underscores the food and water scarcity amidst the rising issues of global warming. Resource insecurity hits the hardest in Asia, Africa, Central and Southern America. The effects also manifest in the collections of small islands in the Arctic region.
Alongside the known changes in natural phenomena and rising sea levels, the problem increases the global death toll due to persistent diseases related to the changes. Recent studies also show that North America accumulates mental health problems because of climate change.
According to the report, 170 adapting countries are still putting up efforts to relay public and political awareness to their citizens, siding with governmental plans and policies that could halt climate change. However, the authors noted that the mitigation inputs vary depending on their location and may be limited due to poverty as well as inequity.
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