{"id":33449,"date":"2023-03-15T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T00:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33449"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:57:25","slug":"ipcc-meet-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ipcc-meet-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"IPCC Meet in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the importance of Assessment reports prepared by IPCC?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary: IPCC meet in Switzerland<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What has been published so far as part of the Sixth Assessment Reports?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why sustained focus on climate change is necessary?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Switzerland this week to finalise the last report of its sixth assessment cycle.<\/li>\n<li>The sixth assessment cycle is expected to set up the tempo for a string of climate change-focused discussions over the next fortnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What is Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The IPCC is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.<\/li>\n<li>The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).<\/li>\n<li>Its main activity is to <strong>prepare Assessment Reports<\/strong>, special reports, and methodology reports assessing the state of knowledge of climate change.\n<ul>\n<li>The IPCC does not itself engage in scientific research.<\/li>\n<li>Instead, it asks scientists from around the world to go through all the relevant scientific literature related to climate change and draw up the logical conclusions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the importance of Assessment reports prepared by IPCC?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The IPCC\u2019s Assessment Reports (ARs), produced every few years, are the most comprehensive and widely accepted scientific evaluations of the state of the Earth\u2019s climate.<\/li>\n<li>They form the basis for government policies to tackle climate change, and provide the scientific foundation for the international climate change negotiations.<\/li>\n<li>Six Assessment Reports have been published so far, the sixth report (AR6) came in three parts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary: IPCC meet in Switzerland<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The IPCC is about to meet in Switzerland to finalise the last report of its sixth assessment cycle.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Synthesis Report<\/strong> is supposed to be a relatively <u>non-technical summary of the previous reports<\/u>, aimed largely at policymakers around the world.<\/li>\n<li>This report is meant to address a wide range of policy-relevant scientific questions related to climate change, but, like all IPCC reports, in a non-prescriptive manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What has been published so far as part of the Sixth Assessment Reports?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As part of the sixth assessment cycle, the IPCC published three comprehensive reports:\n<ul>\n<li>one on scientific evidence for climate change, the other on impacts and vulnerabilities, and the third exploring mitigation options available.<\/li>\n<li>Besides these, <u>special reports on the feasibility of keeping global temperature rise within the 1.5 degree Celsius limit<\/u>, and the connections between land, ocean and cryosphere, were also released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Together, these form the most comprehensive understanding of the earth\u2019s climate system, the changes it is undergoing, the repercussions of these changes.<\/li>\n<li>It also gives the idea about the actions that should to be taken to avoid the worst impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why sustained focus on climate change is necessary?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Climate impacts have already begun to hurt population groups.\n<ul>\n<li>This year\u2019s February in India was the hottest ever, and unusually hot weather continues to prevail in many parts of the country.<\/li>\n<li>The situation is similar in several other parts of the world, with extreme weather events becoming the norm.<\/li>\n<li>The year 2023 is predicted to be among the warmest ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>However, it is in terms of climate action that countries have been found wanting despite repeated predictions of an impending catastrophe.\n<ul>\n<li>The current level of actions is not even commensurate to the effort required to meet the 2 degree Celsius target.<\/li>\n<li>There is disagreement even on something as basic as a commitment to phase out fossil fuels, one of the main contributors to global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is climate change?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Climate change refers to long-term changes in the Earth&#8217;s climate, including changes in temperature, precipitation, and wind patterns, as a result of natural and human activities. These changes can have significant impacts on ecosystems, human health, and social and economic systems. Human activities have caused a significant increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, leading to global warming and other effects on the climate system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Q2)<\/strong> <strong>What is World Meteorological Organization?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that serves as the UN system&#8217;s authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces, and the resulting distribution of water resources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/ipcc-meet-in-switzerland-significance-likely-impact-8497374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IPCC meet in Switzerland: The significance, likely impact<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IPCC<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/explained-what-is-the-ipcc-and-why-are-its-assessment-reports-important-7852860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPCC provides scientific information that can be used to develop climate policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}