Latest IPCC report underscores the urgent need for climate action, stating that every increment of warming results in rapidly escalating hazards.
The report highlights the losses and damages already being experienced and calls for more ambitious action to secure a sustainable, equitable future for all.
Climate justice is crucial, as the most vulnerable people and ecosystems are being disproportionately affected. The solution lies in climate-resilient development, with measures to adapt to climate change integrated with actions to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions.
The report calls for accelerated climate action, with the choices made in the next few years critical in deciding our future and that of generations to come.
There is sufficient global capital to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but insufficient and misaligned finance is holding back progress. The report emphasizes the need for effective and equitable conservation of approximately 30-50% of the Earth’s land, freshwater, and oceans, and the transformation of urban areas to achieve sustainable development.
Changes in the food sector, electricity, transport, industry, buildings, and land use can all help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve health and wellbeing