Climate change impact far greater, frequent and disruptive than previously understood: IPCC report Amitabh Sinha March 1, 2022 https://indianexpress.com/article/world/climate-change/climate-change-impact-greater-frequent-disruptive-ipcc-report-7794684/
The IPCC, a global body of scientists that makes periodic reviews of climate science, on Monday released the second part of its sixth assessment report.
The latest report warns that multiple disasters induced by climate change are likely to emerge in different parts of the world in the next two decades.. “The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5°C. Even temporarily exceeding this warming level will result in additional severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible. Risks for society will increase, including to infrastructure and low-lying coastal settlements,” the IPCC report says.
The report says that the capacity to adapt to the rising temperatures was already getting weaker, for living beings as well as natural systems, and it would reduce further with rising temperatures.
“Soft limits to some human adaptation have been reached, but can be overcome by addressing a range of constraints, primarily financial, governance, institutional and policy constraints. Hard limits to adaptation have been reached in some ecosystems,” the report says.
the report also emphasises that adaptation has to go hand in hand with “ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, because with increased warming, the effectiveness of many adaptation options declines”