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Climate: GIEC experts call for "unprecedented" changes.
By RFI
Posted on 08-10-2018
REUTERS / Aly Song / File Photo
GIEC climate experts once again sound the alarm on the state of the planet and the progression of global warming.
The planet continues to warm up at an alarming rate, and current state commitments to limit this increase are far from sufficient: these are the main conclusions of the latest IPCC report - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their report on the impact of a 1.5 ° C warming of the global temperature compared to pre-industrial levels was made public this Monday morning, October 8, in South Korea.
With our correspondent in Seoul, Frédéric Ojardias
With this new text, the scientists of the GIEC pull with all their strength the alarm bell. At the current pace of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming could reach 1.5 ° C by 2030, provide these experts.
Their report, based on 6,000 scientific studies, also explains that the impact on ecosystems and human health of a rise in temperatures of 2 ° C will be much more serious than a rise of 1.5 ° C. However, 2 ° C is the threshold below which states had committed to stay in the Paris agreement three years ago.
This limit is considered insufficient and GIEC scientists estimate that to maintain warming at 1.5 ° C, CO2 emissions will have to fall by 45% by 2030 and the world will have to stop producing more CO2 in the atmosphere that he can not withdraw by 2050.
Stay below the threshold
Do these experts believe that it is possible to stay below these thresholds, but this will require "unprecedented" changes, new behaviors, and the obligation for all sectors of the industry to drastically reduce their emissions.
It will also be necessary to find new technologies to capture and store excess CO2 in our atmosphere. There is urgency and GIEC experts call for a jump. They call on states and policy makers to take responsibility for preventing a climate catastrophe that could kill hundreds of millions of people.
"Remove CO2 from the atmosphere"
James Skea, one of the authors of the report, stresses the importance of urgent transformations to be put in place by states. "Limiting global warming to 1.5 ° C requires unprecedented changes. This will require drastic emission reductions in all sectors, the use of many technologies, behavioral changes, and significant investments. "
"Progress has already been made," says Skea, particularly in renewable energy. "But such advances are needed in other sectors such as transportation and soil management. To limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5 ° C, we will have to begin this century to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. "
"The methods to achieve this include tree planting, bioenergy combined with carbon capture and storage techniques, soil management, and new approaches that are in their first phase of development," explains the expert group member.
F I N .
Climate: GIEC experts call for "unprecedented" changes.
By RFI
Posted on 08-10-2018
REUTERS / Aly Song / File Photo
GIEC climate experts once again sound the alarm on the state of the planet and the progression of global warming.
The planet continues to warm up at an alarming rate, and current state commitments to limit this increase are far from sufficient: these are the main conclusions of the latest IPCC report - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their report on the impact of a 1.5 ° C warming of the global temperature compared to pre-industrial levels was made public this Monday morning, October 8, in South Korea.
With our correspondent in Seoul, Frédéric Ojardias
With this new text, the scientists of the GIEC pull with all their strength the alarm bell. At the current pace of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming could reach 1.5 ° C by 2030, provide these experts.
Their report, based on 6,000 scientific studies, also explains that the impact on ecosystems and human health of a rise in temperatures of 2 ° C will be much more serious than a rise of 1.5 ° C. However, 2 ° C is the threshold below which states had committed to stay in the Paris agreement three years ago.
This limit is considered insufficient and GIEC scientists estimate that to maintain warming at 1.5 ° C, CO2 emissions will have to fall by 45% by 2030 and the world will have to stop producing more CO2 in the atmosphere that he can not withdraw by 2050.
Stay below the threshold
Do these experts believe that it is possible to stay below these thresholds, but this will require "unprecedented" changes, new behaviors, and the obligation for all sectors of the industry to drastically reduce their emissions.
It will also be necessary to find new technologies to capture and store excess CO2 in our atmosphere. There is urgency and GIEC experts call for a jump. They call on states and policy makers to take responsibility for preventing a climate catastrophe that could kill hundreds of millions of people.
"Remove CO2 from the atmosphere"
James Skea, one of the authors of the report, stresses the importance of urgent transformations to be put in place by states. "Limiting global warming to 1.5 ° C requires unprecedented changes. This will require drastic emission reductions in all sectors, the use of many technologies, behavioral changes, and significant investments. "
"Progress has already been made," says Skea, particularly in renewable energy. "But such advances are needed in other sectors such as transportation and soil management. To limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5 ° C, we will have to begin this century to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. "
"The methods to achieve this include tree planting, bioenergy combined with carbon capture and storage techniques, soil management, and new approaches that are in their first phase of development," explains the expert group member.
F I N .
