An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems". It shows that better land management can contribute to tackling climate change, but is not the only solution
An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems". It shows that better land management can contribute to tackling climate change, but is not the only solution.
This IPCC Special Report was approved on 24 September 2019 by the 195 IPCC member governments. It provides new evidence for the benefits of limiting global warming to the lowest possible level – in line with the goal that governments set themselves in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the UNFCCC requested that the IPCC produce a special report on “the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre–industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emissions pathways”. The report, known as SR1.5, assesses what a 1.5°C warmer world would look like, and also the different pathways by which global temperature rise could be limited to 1.5°C.
The main activity of the IPCC is to at regular intervals provide Assessment Reports of the state of knowledge on climate change. The latest one is the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which was finalized in November 2014.
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been working together since 2014 to support countries in developing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). This report is the most detailed review yet of momentum since the Paris Agreement and was designed to both inspire and inform the UN Climate Action Summit on 23 September 2019.
UNEP's annual Emissions Gap Report provides a scientific assessment of the mitigation contributions from the submitted INDCs and presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.
The report provides case studies, examples and explanations as to the role of climate information and services to support agriculture in the face of climate variability and change, assesses gaps and makes recommendations. This analysis helps highlight both challenges and opportunities for climate service efforts aimed at promoting climate resilient development and adaptation action.
The Global Climate in 2015–2019 is part of the WMO Statements in Climate providing authoritative information on the state of the climate and impacts. It was released as part of a high-level synthesis report from leading scientific institutions United in Science under the umbrella of the Science Advisory Group of the UN Climate Summit 2019.
The annual bulletin is based on observations from the WMO Global Atmosphere Wat