Ariane Wilkinson

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Lawyer - climate, energy, environment.
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Sat on the tram and this huge guy looked at me, wide-eyed, looked away, and then looked again -- like, he stared. It was intense. I started to get nervous: was he angry? Deranged? Hostile?

"Are you ok?" I asked

He jumped "Sorry," he said. "I was just trying to solve the equations on your jumper."

I laughed. We nodded, one nerd to another, and that was that.

💙 Sometimes people surprise you 💙

Did a cat write this?
Here's the website where you can access all the figures and the report itself: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/figures/
Finally, so many of the solutions are (a) already available today, and (b) benefit us in so many ways -- addressing health, equity, justice, and even economic concerns while increasing resilience and accelerating the transition to a clean energy future.
Our choices matter and the faster we act, the better off we will all be - all of us who call this planet home.

So given this dire news, surely we are well on our way to cutting our carbon emissions, no?

No.

The synthesis report is crystal clear: we are not doing nearly enough to avoid dangerous impacts, let alone achieve the targets of the Paris Agreement.

Fourth, the percentage of animal species exposed to potentially dangerous conditions increases significantly the faster the world warms. In general, ocean species like coral and tropical species are most at risk.
Third, the impacts are very serious: they directly affect our health, our food sources, our water and more.
Second, every bit of warming matters. The warmer the planet gets, the more widespread and pronounced the changes in both average climate and climate and weather extremes become.

The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report released today. Here are the key takeaways and figures.

First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.