Insights|Decarbonisation & Climate Resilience

IPCC Assessment Report 6: Take Away Messages for Sustainability Leaders

Written by Mark Siebentritt

Recently, the world’s leading scientific body on the effects of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released its sixth assessment report (AR6). We discuss a selection of key findings from the latest IPCC report that are important for those organisations wanting to take a leadership position on responding to climate change.

IPCC|Climate Change|Climate Resilience|Decarbonisation

Climate model projections show that the uncertainties in atmospheric CO2 concentrations by 2100 are dominated by the differences between our anthropogenic emissions scenarios. The rate and severity of future climate change is therefore still entirely under our control. The transition to a decarbonised economy is already underway and must be accelerated if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change in the coming decades.

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