Global warming: 195 countries look at the latest IPCC report

Residents riding a boat in front of a damaged and flood-affected house near Lake Poyang due to torrential rains in Shangrao city, China, July 15, 2020. STR / AFP

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While disasters have followed one another at a sustained pace for several months, thus putting global warming back at the heart of the debates, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has submitted its report to 195 countries for the last few months. negotiations ahead of its release on August 9.

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Record floods, exceptional bad weather, heat waves, fire ... While

climatic phenomena have

ravaged the world since the beginning of summer, the latest IPCC report is in the home stretch before its publication.

Long awaited, this simplified report, of a few dozen pages, must be negotiated and then approved by the word and the comma.

Concretely, for 15 days, behind closed doors and virtually, the representatives of 195 countries will work on the main aspects of this pre-report and in particular on 

these climate forecasts

: rise in global temperature in the coming decades, rise in the level water or even the frequency of cataclysms.

And the stake of these discussions is high, because it is largely on this sixth report of the IPCC that the decisions in terms of the fight against climate change will be taken during the COP26, scheduled for next November in Glasgow, in Scotland.

In other words, the more the 195 countries have agreed upstream on the risks that threaten the planet, the greater the efforts made should be.

In any case, this is the objective of this kind of negotiation, a few days before the publication of the IPCC report, which already promises to be alarming.

We are on the opposite path

 " of respecting the Paris agreement

For years, we had warned that it was possible, that all of this was going to happen, 

" insisted the

UN

climate manager

, Patricia Espinosa, during the opening ceremony on Monday. “ 

The reality is that we are not on track to meet the Paris agreement target of limiting global warming to + 1.5 ° C by the end of the century. In fact we are on the opposite path, we are heading towards more than + 3 ° C. We must urgently change direction before it is too late, 

”she insisted.

To hope to achieve the objective of the Paris Agreement, the UN estimates that a reduction in emissions of 7.6% on average is necessary between 2020 and 2030. Except that given the low share devoted to clean energies in the plans post-Covid-19 recovery of countries, the International Energy Agency fears emission records by 2023.

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