United in Science report underlines growing gaps between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality

United in Science report underlines growing gaps between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality

The world’s leading climate science organizations have joined forces to produce a landmark new report for the United Nations Climate Action Summit, underlining the glaring – and growing gaps – between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality.

The report, United in Science, includes details on the state of the climate and presents trends in the emissions and atmospheric concentrations of main greenhouse gases. It highlights the urgency of fundamental socio-economic transformation in key sectors such as land use and energy in order to avert dangerous global temperature increase with potentially irreversible impacts. It also examines tools to support both mitigation and adaptation.                             

United in Science

“The Report provides a unified assessment of the state of our Earth system under the increasing influence of anthropogenic climate change, of humanity’s response thus far and of the far-reaching changes that science projects for our global climate in the future. The scientific data and findings presented in the report represent the very latest authoritative information on these topics,” said the Science Advisory Group, which is co-chaired by WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas and Leena Srivastava, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of TERI School of Advanced Studies.

The Science Advisory Group comprises highly recognized and respected international climate scientists, with expertise in different areas of climate science including on mitigation and adaptation.

Read and download the report: United in Science.

Original source: UN Environment
Published on 22 September 2019