2021: Turning Point for Climate Action
The UN Climate Change and IPCC reports warn that current national plans fall short of Paris Agreement goals. With worsening climate impacts, 2021 is a decisive year for urgent, ambitious global action.
A new report from UN Climate Change shows the national climate plans (called NDCs) presented so far to the UN, do not put us on the path of meeting the objectives of the #ParisAgreement.
Additionally, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, just released the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6 Climate Change 2021), that addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
This, as sort of the state of the world on climate, on global warming, on sea level rise, on changes, and extreme storms, and droughts, and precipitation levels. Nevertheless, no one should be surprised that this is not a particularly bright news for climate change, which is wide spreading, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released, showing that 2020 was also another unprecedented year of extreme weather and climate disasters.
Why is 2021 such a crucial year for the fight against #ClimateEmergency?
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