The Coordinator of the Master in Energy Efficiency, Climate Change and Sustainability at Bureau Veritas University Center, Noelia Sánchez, talks to us in this post about the impact of Climate Change on our environment.
Climate change is a fact, and we cannot predict its influence on human life. What we can say is that only through strict emissions cuts will irreversible damage be avoided.
The Fifth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), approved on 2 November 2014 in Copenhagen, is considered the most comprehensive analysis of this area to date, with more than 800 authors and 30,000 scientific articles studied .
The report notes that there are ways to combat cryptocurrency data climate change, but warns that "swift and firm" action is needed and that national leaders must act .
To achieve the goal of limiting the increase in global surface temperature by the end of the century to two degrees above pre-industrial levels, sustained emissions cuts of 40% to 70% will be needed between 2010 and 2050, leading to a reduction to "near zero" by 2100 .
The IPCC report discusses the consequences of warming of the atmosphere and oceans , such as acidification of the latter, reduction of the ice cap at the poles and an increase in extreme weather events.
The past three decades have been warmer than the previous ones, with an estimated temperature rise of 0.85 degrees from 1880 to 2012, while sea level has risen by 19 centimetres from 1901 to 2010, and could rise by 26 to 82 cm by the end of the century.
The IPCC warns that many of the consequences of climate change and associated damage will continue for centuries, even if anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are stopped. It notes that success can only be achieved through international cooperation .
Although specific figures are not mentioned, "significant" measures to slow or mitigate climate change would not affect global economic growth, and consumption would only be reduced by 0.06% .
After consulting the numerous scientific studies existing to date, it is possible to state that the transition to a low-carbon industry is technically possible, but what is lacking are appropriate institutions and policies .
This report will be used as a central reference for the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reach a global agreement in Paris this year, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol from 2020 .
The first two IPCC reports were published in 1990 and 1992, and it was the third (1995) that provided key scientific information for Kyoto . The fourth , released in 2007, provided sufficient evidence to affirm that global warming is unequivocal and established human activities as a probable cause.
Following what has been exposed by scientists and analysed and compiled in this latest report, it is time for all governments and all industrial sectors to stop an impact whose real repercussions we cannot predict, but which our children's children will most likely begin to suffer .