COP26: some 200 climatologists call for immediate action – franceinfo

More than 200 climatologists call on world leaders to take action at COP26 against global warming, Thursday, November 11, at a time described as“historical” for the future of humanity. “We climatologists stress the need for immediate, strong, rapid, sustainable and large-scale actions to limit warming to well below 2 ° C and to continue efforts to limit it to 1.5 ° C”, as provided for in the Paris Agreement, write these scientists in an open letter.

After more than ten days of negotiations, the climate conference enters its home stretch in Glasgow, but the world is still heading for a rise in temperatures “catastrophic” 2.7 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, according to the latest UN assessment.

“COP26 is a historic moment for the fate of climate, societies and ecosystems.”

The 200 signatory climatologists

in an open letter

And the signatories of this open letter recall that “human activities have already warmed the planet by around 1.1 ° C” and “future greenhouse gas emissions will determine further warming”.

The climatologists insist on the clear conclusions of the multiple reports of the IPCC experts with the multiplication of extreme weather events, the major differences in impact between + 2 ° C and + 1.5 ° C, the impacts already sometimes “irreversible”. The latest IPCC report warned in particular against the risk of already reaching around 2030 the threshold of + 1.5 ° C, ten years earlier than previously estimated.