UN Panel of Experts on Climate Change Prepares Sixth Report: “This is the most serious warning ever”

The report by the UN Panel of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be released on Monday, is “the most serious warning ever” on human influence on global warming, said on Sunday the president of COP26. Alok Sharma.

“It will be the most serious warning ever that human behavior is alarmingly accelerating climate change.», Declared the British minister and president of the COP26 in an interview with the newspaper The observer, Sunday edition of The Guardian.

“We cannot afford to wait two years, five years, ten years”, he added, believing that we are still on time, but that “we are dangerously approaching the time “when it is too late. In this regard, he insisted on the decisive nature of the climate conference scheduled for November in Glasgow (COP26).

The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ”it will be a red flag for all those who have not yet understood why the next decade must be absolutely decisive in terms of climate actionSharma insisted, adding that “we will also understand very clearly that human activity is causing climate change at an alarming rate.”

Failure of COP26 would be “catastrophic, there is no other word”, said the Briton, who stressed that “last year was the hottest on record” and that “the last decade has hottest summer on record “.

The consequences of climate change are already evident, he added, citing the floods in Europe and China or “the forest fires, the record temperatures we have seen in North America”.

“Every day we will see how new records are broken, one way or another, around the world.“, Warning.

However, the minister has defended the controversial British plan to allow further exploration for gas and oil fields, despite the fact that the International Energy Agency warned in May that the world should now back down on any further projects. oil or gas if you intend to limit the rise in global temperatures to +1.5 ºC.

The study, aimed at all governments, offers the latest science on climate change: to what extent climate change is unprecedented and irreversible, what sudden changes can occur, or what future scenarios are expected.

In this context, Greenpeace recalls that the IPCC is an organization of 195 countries which provides a scientific basis for public climate policies. Thus, it details that the sixth assessment report is a trilogy prepared by working groups I, II and III, on the scientific basis the first, the impacts of adaptation and vulnerability the second, and mitigation. of climate change the third.

It also includes a summary report for each of them. The IPCC publishes one of these trilogies every 6 to 7 years. The last one was carried out in 2014 and provided the scientific basis for the Paris Agreement and it will inform countries to meet the agreed limit of increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

(With information from AFP and Europa Press)

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