Each year, we invite leading scientists from around the world to review the most pressing findings in climate change-related research. Summarized into 10 concise insights, the result has always been a rich and valuable synthesis for policy and society at large.
The 10 New Insights in Climate Science responds to clear calls for policy guidance during this climate-critical decade.
Full list of insights:
- Overshooting 1.5°C is fast becoming inevitable. Minimising the magnitude and duration of overshoot is essential.
- A rapid and managed fossil fuel phase-out is required to stay within the Paris Agreement target range.
- Robust policies are critical to attain the scale needed for effective carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
- Over-reliance on natural carbon sinks is a risky strategy; their future contribution is uncertain.
- Joint governance is necessary to address the interlinked climate and biodiversity emergencies.
- Compound events amplify climate risks and increase their uncertainty.
- Mountain glacier loss is accelerating.
- Human immobility in areas with climate risks is increasing.
- New tools to operationalise justice enable more effective climate adaptation.
- Reforming food systems can contribute to just climate action.
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