The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is here, and it’s not pretty, folks. As part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment, the panel’s second working group has released a report that assesses the present-day and future impacts of climate change, as well as the vulnerabilities to human society and the adaptations we must undertake.
Last year, the IPCC published its first report in the series on how the climate crisis has left its fingerprints all over the planet’s bizarre weather. The report was clear: Time’s running out to stop the worst. Climate leaders shared with me their reactions. Now, this latest report further underlines the urgency of the issue as the authors make even more clear the risk communities face. The people who did the least to create this mess remain the most vulnerable.
“In this report, there is expanded attention to inequity in climate vulnerability and responses, the role of power and participation in processes of implementation, unequal and differential impacts, and climate justice,” the report reads.
However, adaptation is a key piece of the report, too. In a world overrun by tragedy—especially since Russia declared war on Ukraine—I’m choosing to focus on how we pull ourselves out from under the rubble.
Welcome to The Frontline, where climate solutions are on the table. I’m Yessenia Funes, climate director of Atmos. The IPCC’s latest report is full of sobering facts and numbers, but it also offers us an opportunity to go beyond cutting greenhouse gas emissions. As the report makes clear, world leaders can take a number of steps that would not only tackle climate change, but also other issues plaguing society and the planet—from food to biodiversity.
In January 2021, Michelle Diane Hernandez got her first look at the draft version of the IPCC report released Monday. She and eight other expert reviewers with YOUNGO, the Official Youth Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, submitted about 80 comments on the cities chapter. The diverse group of young experts with backgrounds in urban planning were able to offer their criticisms on how the report should better reflect the impacts people in cities are seeing today—as well as the solutions they need.
“It’s important for us to elevate the socioeconomic implications,” said Hernandez, who co-founded the chapter’s youth working group. “This [report] is gold. This is what we know. There’s no denying it.”
And that’s what the IPCC is all about: communicating the most up-to-date science on the climate crisis and using the science to offer world leaders a guide, as Hernandez puts it, to respond. After all, we can’t only discuss what’s wrong; we must also discuss what’s needed. Solutions play a major role in the IPCC’s working group two report, which will help inform the discussions at this year’s U.N. climate negotiations in Egypt known as COP27. The assessment focuses on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability when it comes to climate change. The 37-page summary for policymakers offers a great overview, but you can also take a deeper dive into the thousands of pages that make up the entire report.
Compared to previous reports, this assessment places a greater emphasis on the ways climate change is impacting society, the economy, public health, and equity. Among other devastating findings on how climate change is already reducing our access to food, water, and energy, the authors write that adaptation will become more complicated the longer we wait to reduce emissions, especially if the planet heats more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures. That’s because a hotter planet would essentially eliminate some natural solutions to climate change—like forests as carbon sinks.
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