Abstract
The combined long-term datasets of multiple climate change indicators are trending at an increasing rate towards biosphere collapse. Just a few recent (important) tipping point papers have hinted that Northern Hemisphere warming is accelerating, driving disastrously destructive extreme events. Even so, governments continue to support and subsidize GHG-polluting industries. Warming of 1.5°C is unavoidable around 2030, but not acknowledged or prepared far. The UN COP process is not helping. Already committed equilibrium warming, calculated by atmospheric CO2 eq. and radiative forcing, is over 2°C — but not recognized. IPCC (2022) AR6 WG3 calls for immediate rapid global emissions decline, but this message has not been publicized or carried forward. This emissions decline requires immediate unconditional termination of all GHG-pollution subsidies and charging the full pollution costs to central polluters. Based on the IPCC AR6 Synthesis and 2022 Interacademy ‘Health in the Climate Emergency’ report (notably Appendix 4: Policy Instruments), intervention via formal climate emergency advisories, with policy recommendations, by national science and health organizations to their governments and the U.N. is required (the IPCC does not make value judgements nor make policy recommendations), together with the engagement of scientists in emergency mitigation education and policymaking at the regional level. This paper explains why and how we can make this happen.
Presenters
Peter CarterDirector, Environmental Health, Climate Emergency Institute, British Columbia, Canada
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
CLIMATE SCIENCE, CLIMATE EMERGENCY, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, CLIMATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE
