COA professor Doreen Stabinsky coauthors the latest damning report from the Intergovernmental Pa... COA professor Doreen Stabinsky coauthors the latest damning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, and can be nearly halved this decade, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to give the world a chance of limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

Their report was the third and final section of the IPCC’s latest comprehensive review of climate science, drawing on the work of thousands of scientists, including coauthor Doreen Stabinsky. IPCC reports take about seven years to compile, making this potentially the last warning before the world is set irrevocably on a path to climate breakdown.

Though the report found it was now “almost inevitable” that temperatures would rise above 1.5C – the level above which many of the effects of climate breakdown will become irreversible – the IPCC said it could be possible to bring them back down below the critical level by the end of this century. But doing so could require technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which campaigners warned were unproven and could not be a substitute for deep emissions cuts now. 

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