IPCC Report: "Irreversible Damage" To Coral Reefs, Arctic Sea Ice & Ice Shelves
An international climate change panel currently meeting in Yokohama has agreed to state that coral reefs and Arctic sea ice have already suffered irreversible damage due to global warming in an upcoming report.
The agreement came at a plenary session of Working Group II of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday. The IPCC is meeting in Yokohama to assess the impact of ongoing warming of the planet.
There will be serious effects on the natural environment when global average temperatures rise by 1.6 C from the pre-Industrial Revolution level, and they will worsen further with a rise of 2.6 C, according to the IPCC. Thus the agreement will affect ongoing international negotiations over global warming countermeasures, the main aim of which is to keep temperature rises within 2 C.
At the beginning of the agreement, the working group acknowledges that “Observed impacts of climate change are widespread and substantial” and “In recent decades changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.”
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