Tag: IPCC

This month has seen two extensive reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) covering, in turn, the topics of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Those who argue against action to reduce our dependency on hydro-carbons have fuelled the perception in the popular press that we can choose between these two spheres of action – preventing climate change through carbon emissions reductions on the one hand, or adapting to its impacts on the other.

Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Working Group III report on mitigation, the product of more than six years of research and input from hundreds of scientists. Two key findings stand out. The first is that we have only 15 years left to start making the changes required to limit the catastrophic consequences of a global temperature increase above 2 degrees. Second, the issue of climate change is a global commons problem so unparalleled in history that it can only be addressed through unprecedented global cooperation.

C40 welcomes further definitive evidence from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the impact that humanity is having on climate change, and the potential consequences to our way of life.

Last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘Physical Science’ report should end debate that human activity is causing climate change and that the risks are potentially catastrophic.

Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the full findings of its latest report on climate change. This report is the fifth such assessment that focuses on the physical science basis of climate change; in 2014 two other IPCC working groups will release reports on the topics of climate change adaptation and mitigation, respectively.