Climate Crisis | “Heavy” discussions delay IPCC report

Approval of the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was delayed by 48 hours due to difficult discussions, the publication of which was postponed to mid-Monday.

Jean-Thomas Leville
Press

The two-week meeting, to be completed by Friday’s 270 authors and delegates from 195 member countries, approved the content of a nearly 3,000-page report “Summary for Decision-makers” on solutions to reduce mitigation. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the atmosphere.

Negotiations, as the saying goes, are sometimes “hot” Press A source of attendance, but not authorized to speak publicly about it, extended the exercise until Sunday evening by Geneva time.

The publication of the document, which was originally scheduled for Monday morning as a result of the working group III of the IPCC, was postponed until 5:00 pm Geneva time (11:00 am Montreal time), the report must first be approved by a vote in the Plenary.

The “important” information contained in the report inevitably caused controversy, he said Press The second source who attended the talks, but who did not have the authority to speak openly about them.

Conflicts arise over issues such as financing measures, fossil fuel space, carbon capture and sequestration and “reduction by demand”, i.e. changes in consumption behavior.

Oil, gas and meat

Different countries have tried to provide a less negative tone to their national interests, explain the sources Press.

Saudi Arabia, for example, insisted that the text still leave room for the exploitation of fossil fuels, the British newspaper also reported. Guardian.

Brazil and Argentina, the main beef producers, did not want the report to suggest the need to adopt a “vegetable diet”, instead of a “balanced diet”, explains one source Press.

The United States has focused on the question of funding with the intention of not taking responsibility at this stage.

Is there a risk of watering down the changes report? Probably a summary, but it is enough to go through the “chapters” to have the right hour, one of its sources guesses PressThis reminds us that the authors of the report have a final opinion on its content.

She pointed out that many countries, including Canada, have worked hard to keep policy summaries as close as possible to scientific conclusions.

“The majority of interventions are beneficial”, other sources consider PressIt signifies India’s perseverance in the legitimacy of actions to be taken, among other things.

“Strong and sometimes tense discussions between country’s representatives and writers, scientists have a big advantage over the report only scientists write in their ivory tower: a common sense of ownership”, one of the authors of the report, Jean-Pascal van Yiperseley, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Nue in Belgium, on Sunday. In the evening the social network wrote on Twitter.

Hopefully the report

Many report authors expressed their delight at being accepted on social media and seeing their optimism.

“IPCC report just approved! ! 16 days, almost 40 hours of line-by-line negotiations and the end of approval, “said Stephanie Rowe, a senior Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) senior climate scientist.

“This report restores the need, but it also provides (and evaluates) a number of approaches to the solution in the context of sustainable development,” added Professor Van Yiperseley, who spoke on the longest approval session in 34 years of organizational history.

Despite last-minute heart attacks and delayed results, this new IPCC report is expected to be promising, according to sources close to the talks.

“He’s going to say: ‘In eight years, it will be possible to halve emissions,'” he said, referring to one of them, noting that solutions are available and financially viable, “no, that’s a political will. To pursue these solutions.”