Delegates at COP27 will be relying scientific research published by IPCC to inform their decisions about future energy plans and warming trajectories
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produces reports roughly every five years that represent global scientific consensus on climate change, its causes and its impact.
For the first time, the report's authors called for urgent action to curb methane. Up to this point, the IPCC had focused on only carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas. With climate change already fueling extreme weather worldwide, the report urged rich and poor countries alike to adapt now to impacts including more frequent heatwaves, stronger storms and higher sea levels.
The daunting forecast for the world's poor reignited calls for a"Loss and Damage" fund through which rich nations would compensate costs already being incurred by poor countries in climate-fuelled disasters - a key demand by vulnerable countries going into the COP27 talks in Egypt.It's"now or never," one report co-chair said in releasing findings that show that only drastic emissions cuts in the next few decades would keep warming from spiraling out of control.
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