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...Under his leadership, he said, the IPCC would aim to produce tighter reports, which are used by governments to shape policy, including a special report that is under way on the effects on cities of climate...
...We believe the right approach here is to take inspiration from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)....
...As well being the co-lead of the IPCC’s special report on global warming of 1.5C, and a co-author of the landmark 2023 sixth assessment report, Skea was previously chair of the IPCC Working Group III on...
...Temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1C, the IPCC found....
...The IPCC has already commissioned a special report on climate change and cities for 2024. This is not enough....
...report (see IPCC)....
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...Greenhouse gas emissions would need to fall by almost half by 2030 for the rise to be limited to 1.5C, the IPCC said. Instead they have continued to rise....
...The IPCC’s latest summary of climate science said in March that projected emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure alone exceeded the levels of carbon required to keep warming to below 1.5C....
...According to the IPCC, “all pathways that limit global warming to 1.5C with limited or no overshoot” require carbon dioxide removal at a massive scale, between 100bn and 1,000bn tonnes this century....
...He said the IPCC models were “too conservative” and did not take into account early warning signals of instability reported more recently....
...The IPCC estimated a range of $1.5tn-$3tn a year capital investment in non-OECD countries over this decade to meet Paris goals....
...“Even if we granted every single conceivable licence to the North Sea . . . the [UK’s oil production] would decline at 7 per cent a year, twice the rate of the IPCC [recommendations].”...
...Precipitation is more likely to increase in high latitudes, while changes to monsoon precipitation are expected, the IPCC report said....
...corporate AI leaders and policy experts, including former Google chief Eric Schmidt, called for an “independent, expert-led body” to be set up to oversee development of the technology, inspired by the IPCC...
...But the IPCC this year reported that the risks of warming were greater than was thought and the world could reach the 1.5C threshold in the “near term”....
...So there is understandable interest in seeing if the IPCC model might work for AI....
...Carbon capture is just one part of the solution, says UN IPCC chair Jim Skea....
...The IPCC was set up in 1988 to provide governments with regular, gold standard assessments of climate science and policy....
...It does so as the IPCC has warned that there is “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”. Law is not a panacea....
...Reiterating the findings of the 2021 IPCC report, the researchers said it was “unequivocal” that humans had caused global warming....
...It found that none of the 25 countries it examined had emission reduction targets for 2030 that would help limit global warming below 1.5C, based on standard models used by IPCC....
...The report brings together six IPCC studies, which will serve as an important reference for leaders at the COP28 climate conference in November....
...Policymakers and researchers look to the UN IPCC climate reports, the definitive assessments of the state of warming and how to tackle it, to inform decision making....
...Later this month, the IPCC will issue a report that will focus heavily on the 1.5C target....
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