The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will today publish its special report on global warming of 1.5 ºC .
In 2015 governments adopted the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change and invited the IPCC to prepare a special report in 2018 to assess the impacts and related pathways of warming of 1.5ºC.
The report “Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” examines the impacts of global warming of 1.5 ºC above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways”, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
The Paris meeting invited the IPCC to provide a Special Report on 1.5°C in 2018 to assess the implications of the goal and how it could be achieved.
The scope of the Special Report, which has been prepared by 91 coordinating lead authors, lead authors and review editors from 40 countries, helped by 133 contributing authors, assesses three main themes:
- What would be required to limit warming to 1.5°C (mitigation pathways)
- The impacts of 1.5°C of warming, compared to 2ºC and higher
- Strengthening the global response to climate change; mitigation and adaptation options
The most recent report from the IPCC is the Fifth Assessment Report, published in 2013 and 2014. It assessed more than 30,000 scientific publications.
Two other special reports, Climate Change and Land, and the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, will be published in 2019.
The three Working Group contributions to the Sixth Assessment Report will be published in 2021, followed by a Synthesis Report in 2022.
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