Global solidarity needed to overcome the crisis.
on the physical science of climate change to date on Aug 9. A total of 234 scientists and government representatives from 195 countries comprising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have told us how the world’s climate responds to human actions.
The IPCC report reveals that due to climate change, Southeast Asia has already experienced hot extremes, less frequent but increased rainfall, fewer but more extreme tropical cyclones and agricultural and ecological droughts. Our region may not warm up as much as the rest of the world, but warming will further increase rainfall, river flood levels, monsoon wetness and impact coastlines due to sea-level rise.
Clouds gather but produce no rain as cracks are seen in a dried-up dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, on Nov 14, 2019. The IPCC recently indicated that emissions would need to be cut by around 45 percent by 2030 compared to 2010. Its new report sets out a carbon budget that would give us the best chance of stabilising at 1.5ºC warming, but at current emissions, we could exhaust this before 2028. Furthermore, most of this carbon budget would be consumed by richer industrialised nations which have historically occupied most of our atmospheric space.
Vaccine hoarding amidst the pandemic has provided a disappointing lesson in how countries with means will take care of themselves at the expense of others. Global solidarity is needed to ensure that the climate crisis will not be every nation for itself. Pessimism involves preparing adaptation measures to protect the most vulnerable at home in the event that climate targets are missed, as well as from irreversible changes set in motion, such as sea-level rise. This means building resilience in communities at risk of extreme weather events, such as floods and drought, sea-level rise and declining agricultural fertility.
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