Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future for all
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarizing the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
There are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today.
“Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits,” said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. “This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all.” Source: IPCC Press Release
The University of Waterloo is home to several lead authors and contributing researchers for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). This includes Waterloo Climate Institute members Sarah Burch, Luna Khirfan, Linda Mortsch, Robert McLeman, Hannah Neufeld, Susan Elliott and Michelle Rutty. Our researchers are climate change experts who are contributing to critical scientific evidence that will shape our future.
The full IPCC press release and report are available on the IPCC's AR6 Synthesis Report website.