10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021
Newest Findings in Climate Sciences in 2021
62 leading scientists from 21 countries compiled the 10 newest findings in climate science in 2021 in this year’s edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science.
The Earth League, Future Earth and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) launched the report together with UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in a press conference on November 4 at the UN climate conference COP26 in Glasgow. The press conference kicked off with a keynote address from UNFCCC executive secretary Patricia Espinosa and an introduction by Johan Rockström (The Earth League, Future Earth). Some of the questions that the report covers include:
- Is it still possible to keep anthropogenic global warming within the 1.5°C-target, the maximum temperature for global warming as defined by the Paris agreement?
- What are the impacts of extreme fires (megafires) such as the “Black Summer” in 2019/2020 in Australia?
- What are the advantages of climate mitigation actions especially with regard to human health and nature?
The goal of the report is to provide attendees and climate negotiators at the UN climate conference with the newest and most relevant findings in climate science of the past year. These findings are published in a scientific journal article in the journal Global Sustainability. The report can be found on the official webpage of the project.
This year, the Swedish Future Earth Global Hub, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the Global Futures Laboratory of the Arizona State University and the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) led the coordination of both the report and the scientific article. The Earth League and Future Earth published the first issue of the report in 2017.
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