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A Call For Immediate Action: Climate Change
A Call For Immediate Action: Climate Change
A Call for
Immediate
Action
A call for immediate action
High concentration of GHG -> Warming up of atmosphere, ocean, land-> Rapid change in climate
•Despite the decline in 2020, global energy-related CO2 emissions remained at 31.5 Gt, which contributed to
CO2 reaching its highest ever average annual concentration in the atmosphere of 412.5 parts per million in
2020 — around 50 per cent higher than when the industrial revolution began
Mitigating air pollution and carbon emission reduction
•Aerosol Cooling
•Equivalent to warming from methane and nitrous oxides- short-lived climate forcers
•Air pollution vs Carbon Emission Reduction
•Separate strategies and interventions
•Getting rid of coal: Common solution
Getting rid of coal is considered as an incorrect assumption in the IPCC Report: Strategies aimed at CO2
reduction may not help in improving air quality/
Growing Gap between Climate Science and Climate Policy
••“ Global cumulative emissions & their linear relation to global temperature rise”
•For a 50% probability of limiting temp to 1.5 degree Celsius rise, the total carbon budget available to the
world is 2890 Giga tonnes
•For a 50% probability of limiting temp to 2 degree Celsius rise, the remaining carbon budget available to the
world is 1350 Giga tonnes
•For a 50% chance of limiting temp rise to 1.5 degree, we have to reach net-zero by 2039
•For a 67% chance of limiting temp rise to 1.5 degree, we have to reach net-zero by 2035
Crossing the 1.5 degree Celsius in all scenarios
AR6 assesses climate responses to 5 emission scenarios. These scenarios represent five different levels of
warming from very low to very high.
Scientists tried to map several possible scenarios though we know that 1.5 degree target is impossible to
reach.
What do we need NOW?