IPCC

🔆 IPCC

✅ India welcomes the release of the Working Group II (WG2) contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

♻️ Key findings of the Report and its Summary for Policymakers:

✅ The Report affirms that climate change due to historical emissions is leading to serious impacts which are already being felt globally.

✅ The Report emphasizes that action on adaptation is urgently needed – as urgently as action on mitigation.

✅ The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) underlines the need for climate action on the basis of equity and climate justice to ensure the well-being of humanity and the planet. 

✅ The science of climate resilience now fully acknowledges the importance of equity and climate justice that India has always championed and had brought into the Paris Agreement. 

✅ Further, the SPM clearly acknowledges the importance of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in adaptation to climate change.

✅ Vulnerable and marginalized communities, regions and populations face rising exposure to hazards. 

✅ The Report is a clarion call for the world to abandon their unsustainable production and consumption and move urgently to climate resilient development. 

✅ The Report notes that the impacts and the consequent limitations to adaptation would rise beyond 1.5 degree warming above pre-industrial levels. 

✅ Provision of finance is critical for helping developing countries and vulnerable populations act quickly and effectively. Public finance is the key enabler for adaptation. 

✅ Rapid progress on achieving the SDGs will help in enhancing adaptive capacity and resilience.

✅ The Report re-affirms that the balance between adaptation and mitigation in climate resilient development depends on national circumstances.

✅ The Report fully acknowledges the importance of losses and damages arising from climate change. 

✅ Adaptation suffers from a tremendous lack of finance, with only a small proportion of climate finance devoted to it, while the overwhelming proportion goes to mitigation.

✅ The Report recognizes the key role of agriculture and the great importance of food security in adaptation.

✅ India faces multiple climate hazards and has high vulnerability to climate change. 

✅ The Report notes that future climate-resilient development pathways depend on climate risks, adaptation measures and the remaining carbon budget.