As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
prepares to release its 1.5°C special report on Monday 8 October, expectations
are there that the IPCC will make a clear case for limiting the global warming
to 1.5 degree C and suggest strong actions.
The Chair of the Least Developed Countries Gebru Jember
Endalew, in a release, has said that “It will be important that the report and
the Summary for Policy Makers clearly sets out the scientific necessity of
limiting global warming to 1.5° C as opposed to 2°C to protect people and the
planet, and highlights the vast discrepancy between this goal and our current
global emissions pathway .In doing so, the report will shine a spotlight on the
scale of the challenge the international community must rise up to meet. A
future where warming is limited to 1.5°C is a brighter future for all.”
Governments across the world need to take the report
seriously and we need a fair and ambitious action plan to limit warning below 1.5°
C, said the release. The current plans
are not enough, as we all know and Gebru too apprehends. http://bit.ly/2RdNGfv
From other reports we have seen how the US is trying to
exert pressure on IPCC to dilute the report. http://bit.ly/2OA4bno
The US has always played such tricks with the climate goals and actions in the international
negotiation process. The IPCC needs to
stick to science and integrity!
Ranjan Panda
Convenor, Combat Climate Change Network, India
Email: ranjanpanda@gmail.com
Skype: ranjan.climatecrusader
Tweets @ranjanpanda
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