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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the third report as part of its sixth major assessment of the science of climate change; Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, on Monday, April 4. Sarah Burch, Executive Director at the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation, and professor of Geography and Environmental Management is a Lead Author for Chapter 17: Accelerating the transition in the context of sustainable development, and a contributing author for Chapter 13: National and subnational policies and institutions.
She and other top scientists from around the world have spent the past several years identifying climate mitigation options and how they can be applied across all sectors and activities. These include energy, transport, buildings, industry, waste management, agriculture, forestry, and other forms of land management.
The Working Group III report, along with earlier reports on the physical science as well as impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability of climate change, are part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment of the state of the knowledge of the climate crisis. These reports tell us where we are in terms of our global greenhouse gas emissions, what steps we can (and already are) taking to reduce them, and how we can speed up this process while also taking justice and competing priorities into account. University of Waterloo researchers have contributed to each of the IPCC assessments since it was initially formed in 1988.
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