{"id":14655,"date":"2023-03-21T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14655"},"modified":"2023-03-21T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:36:05","slug":"urgent-climate-chane-action-can-secure-a-livable-future-for-all-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/03\/21\/urgent-climate-chane-action-can-secure-a-livable-future-for-all-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Climate Chane action can secure a livable future for all. UN Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urgent Climate Chane action can secure a livable future for all. UN Report<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cUrgent\u201d action is needed to counter human-caused \u201cClimate Change\u201d, according to a news report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on \u201cClimate Change\u201d (IPCC).<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout urgent, effective, and equitable mitigation and adaption actions, climate change increasingly threatens ecosystems, biodiversity, and the livelihoods, health and well-being of current and future generations\u201d, said the report, released Monday in Interlaken, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Reports by the IPCC are considered the planet\u2019s most authoritative assessments of the state of global warming, its consequences and the measures being taken to tackle it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumanity is on thin ice \u2013 and that ice is melting fast,\u201d UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. \u201cOur world needs climate action on all fronts \u2013 everything, everywhere, all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the report said there were many feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they were available now.<\/p>\n

\u201cMainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits,\u201d said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. \u201cThis Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a loveable sustainable future for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Temperatures have already risen to 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a consequence of more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use.<\/p>\n

This has resulted in more frequent and intense extreme weather events that have caused increasingly dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world.<\/p>\n

Climate-driven food and water insecurity is expected to grow with increased warming: when the risks combine with other adverse events, such as pandemics or conflicts, they become even more difficult to manage.<\/p>\n

If temperatures are to be kept to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, deep, rapid, and sustained greenhouse gas emissions reductions will be needed in all sectors this decade, the reports states. Emissions need to go down now, and be cut by almost half by 2030, if this goal has any chance of being achieved.<\/p>\n

The solution proposed by the IPCC is \u201cclimate resilient development,\u201d which involves integrating measures to adapt to climate change with actions to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in ways that provide wider benefits.<\/p>\n

Examples include access to clean energy, low-carbon electrification, the promotion of zero and low carbon transport, and improved air quality: the economic benefits for people\u2019s health from air quality improvements alone would be roughly the same, or possibly even larger, than the costs of reducing or avoiding emissions<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest gains in well-being could come from prioritizing climate risk reduction for low-income and marginalized communities, including people living in informal settlements,\u201d said Christopher Trisos, one of the report\u2019s authors. \u201cAccelerated climate action will only come about if there is a many-fold increase in finance. Insufficient and misaligned finance is holding back progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The power of governments to reduce barriers to lowering greenhouse gas emissions, through public funding and clear signals to investors, and scaling up tried and tested policy measures, is emphasized in the report.<\/p>\n

Changes in the food sector, electricity, transport, industry, buildings, and land-use are highlighted as important ways to cut emissions, as well as moves to low-carbon lifestyles, which would improve health and well-being.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransformational changes are more likely to succeed where there is trust, where everyone works together to prioritize risk reduction, and where benefits and burdens are shared equitably,\u201d said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee.<\/p>\n

In his video message released on Monday, UN chief Guterres described the report as a \u201chow-to- guide to defuse the Climate time-bomb\u201d.<\/p>\n

Climate action was needed on all fronts: \u201ceverything, everywhere, all at once, \u201che declared, in a reference to this year\u2019s Best Film Academy Award winner.<\/p>\n

The UN chief proposed to the G20 group of highly developed economies a \u201cClimate Solidarity Pact,\u201d in which all big emitters would make extra efforts to cut emissions, and wealthier countries would mobilize financial and technical resources to support emerging economies in a common effort to ensure that global temperatures do not rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n

Guterres announced that he was presenting a plan to boost efforts to achieve the Pact through an Acceleration Agenda, which involved leaders of developed countries committing to reaching net zero as close as possible to 2040, and developing countries as close as possible to 2050.<\/p>\n

The agenda calls for an end to coal, net-zero electricity generation by 2035 for all developed countries and 2040 for the rest of the world, and a stop to all licensing or funding of new oil and gas, and any expansion of existing oil and gas reserves.<\/p>\n

These measures, continued Guterres, must accompany safeguards for the most vulnerable communities, scaling up finance and capacities for adaptation and loss and damage, and promoting reforms to ensure Multilateral Development Banks provide more grants and loans, and fully mobilize private finance.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the upcoming UN climate conference, due to be held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12, Guterres said he expected all G20 leaders to have committed to ambitious new economy-wide nationally determined contributions encompassing all greenhouse gases, and indicating their absolute emissions cuts targets for 2035 and 2040.<\/p>\n

Achim Steiner, Administrator, of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) pointed \u00a0\u00a0to signs that the journey to net-Zero was picking up pace as the world looked to the 2023 UN Climate Change conference or Cop28 in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat includes the Inflation Reduction Act in the US, described \u2018the most significant legislation in history to tackle the climate crises and the European Union\u2019s latest Green Deal Industrial Plan, a strategy to make the bloc the home of clean technology and green jobs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow is the time for an era of co-investment in bold solutions. As the narrow window of opportunity to stop Climate Change rapidly closes, the choice that government the private sector, and communities now make \u2013 or do not make \u2013 will go down in history\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Sources: APP<\/p>\n

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