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New IPCC report: what solutions for global warming?

Publié le 06 avril 2022 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

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On April 4, 2022, the UN climate experts in the IPCC released a new report on how to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. These recommendations aim to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as agreed with the Paris Agreement in 2015.

Replacement of fossil fuels, CO2 capture, limitation of methane emissions, reduction of energy demand... The third part of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on the various paths to be followed in order to limit global warming as much as possible in relation to the pre-industrial era.

This report follows the second part of the IPCC's sixth assessment report, published on 28 February 2022, which focused on the effects, vulnerabilities and adaptability to the climate crisis. The first, dated August 2021, concluded that climate change was faster than expected (read more on Vie-publique.fr ).

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