IPCC report publishedby Kushal Naharki | 11-10-2018 17:19 |
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Half a degree can make a world of difference. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following its weeklong meeting in Incheon, South Korea released a report on October 8 on the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its 21st Session in Paris, France (30 November to 11 December 2015) to provide a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 ?C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. In 2015, Paris Agreement 195 nations signed onto the agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees by 2100. The IPCC report examines various possible paths that scientists have examined to limit the environmental impacts of warming. Among the variables considered in these paths are when emissions are projected to reach net zero, when the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere is balanced by the amount that is being removed. Another variable is how many more emissions will be allowable in the meantime — a concept known as the carbon budget. Refrence: https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/global-warming-limit-degrees-ipcc-climate-change
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