The UN's Latest Climate Report Is a Final Warning for Action

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“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C,” an IPCC co-chair said. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”

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The UN’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Warning for Action
“It’s now or never.”
9:05 AM · Apr 4, 2022

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The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on Monday to outline strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing the rate of global warming.

Like its predecessors, the latest IPCC report is chock full of alarming news, and tempered by optimism that there are solutions in our grasp to save the world from the worst climate change scenarios—if we have the willpower.

“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C,” IPCC co-chair Jim Skea said in a statement. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”

The report is premised around keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. To achieve this goal, the authors came up with a model that allows greenhouse gas emissions to peak by 2025 and be cut by 43 percent by 2030. The ultimate goal is to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by the early 2050s to prevent a 1.5 degree Celsius increase.

So far, the world is far from on track to meeting this goal.

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[BlueJac]

1. US is afraid of big oil and Joe Manchin!

Go figure the planet is at stake and we keep kicking the can down the road! I feel bad for the next generations.

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2. One of the exact reasons I didn't have children

There was no way I was planning on bringing a child into this world. I felt it wasn't fair to bring a being into a world that cares so little for the space we inhabit.