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COP26: Why The UN Climate Conference Matters Like Never Beforehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/10/22/with-one-week-till-cop26-climate-talks-experts-set-out-whats-at-stake/?sh=19fa74eb585dRockstrom:
“The message to take to Glasgow is that the science has never been so clear: that every tenth of a degree matters, and that 1.5 is for real,” explains Johan Rockström, professor and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
“At 1.5 degrees we're telling our kids that we, the adults who are in charge of Earth now, are handing over the planet in a less liveable state for all future generations,” he adds.
Rockström delivers these words calmly, in measured tones. As one of the most influential climate scientists working today, he isn’t a man readily inclined to dramatic turns of phrase. So when he talks like this, the effect is alarming.
“That’s where we are,” he continues. “That’s why we talk about a climate emergency. I mean, academics don't like those kinds of words, but we are forced to use them today because now it's a crunch moment.”
Rockström points to the UN’s latest synthesis report, released September 17, which indicates that, with all countries’ current climate commitments taken into account, the world is currently on a trajectory to warm by 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
“I barely even want to talk about 2.7 degrees,” Rockström says. “If we go beyond 2 degrees it’s very likely that we have caused so many tipping points that you have probably added another degree just through self-reinforcing changes. And that’s without even talking about extreme events.”His frustration is palpable as he sums up the situation: “It is a very special moment in time.
We have 30-plus years of scientific advancements; 150 years of unsustainable pressures rising; and we've come to this point now where we can prove that we've basically saturated the system. There's no more room to maneuver, which means the only way out is 100% sustainability.”