Climate change is altering “vital planetary processes” in the oceans, placing the Amazon “on the verge of large-scale collapse” and even threatening the birth of next generations, reversing “decades of advances in reproductive health,” according to a report prepared by various scientific teams.
The document, promoted by the international organizations Future Earth, The Earth League and World Climate Research Programme, is titled “Ten new perspectives in climate science” and summarizes climate research from the last 18 months with the intention of inspiring those responsible. politicians who will negotiate at COP29 next November “and beyond,” according to the official statement of these three entities.
In reality, the perspectives referred to in the title are not new, but rather a twist on climate problems that international specialists have been working on, especially since the signing of the Paris Agreement, approved during COP21.
The first three ideas point to the need to stop the increase in methane levels – which have increased since 2006 – by reducing emissions and applying “cost-effective solutions”, reducing atmospheric pollution – the text recognizes that it has gone down and that this has improved ” considerably” public health – and take into account rising temperatures and humidity levels, which “push people beyond the limits of habitability.”
The report also points out how extreme climates harm reproductive well-being, “putting pregnant women and unborn children at risk,” certifying the “devastating” global effects of ocean changes such as El Niño or the circulation of currents in the ocean. Atlantic, and proposes biocultural diversity to “reinforce the resilience of the Amazon in the face of climate change,” combining it with a “rapid reduction of emissions worldwide.”
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Three more points refer to the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to “more frequent and intense” climate risks, the challenges of climate resilient development in cities – “very few” have integrated mitigation and adaptation strategies, he affirms – and the governance gap and competition for minerals necessary for the energy transition.
The tenth and final point refers to “equity, acceptance and resistance” to climate policies, which will be accepted if the public understands the “determining factor” of the concept of climate justice but rejected if citizens’ concerns are ignored. .
The signatory scientists urge policymakers at the upcoming climate summit in Baku to “reflect on this data when updating their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)” because “global temperature records distance the objectives of the Paris Agreement even further and increase threats to maternal health,” especially in the most vulnerable countries.
In this sense, Professor Joyashree Roy, from the Asian Institute of Technology, recalled that according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 40% of the world’s population is already “very vulnerable” to the constant increase in temperatures, therefore that “ignoring the disposition and needs of citizens when designing and implementing climate policies will lead to the loss of many opportunities” by generating a “weakened and ineffective climate policy.”
Also the co-president of the Earth League, Johan Rockström, insisted on confirmation of the changes “on a planetary scale” that are leading to areas of the Earth “beyond the limits of habitability”, although he clarified that the report also contributes “clear solutions” that would allow “unmanageable results to be avoided, with urgent and decisive measures.”
With information from EFE
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