To IPCC:End fossil fuel extraction and production and reject false solutions to avoid dangerous temperature overshoot...
340+ Organizations Call on Governments and the IPCC to Foreground Rapid Phaseout of Fossil Fuels
28 March 2022
While the IPCC and governments continue meeting this week to review the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) regarding mitigation, over 340 organizations sent a letter today to the IPCC Co-Chairs and governments to foreground putting an end to fossil fuel extraction and production in order to avoid dangerous temperature overshoot, and to reject false solutions embedded in the report including Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), carbon markets and carbon offsets, and Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).
The IPCC Working Group III Mitigation Report is due out April 4th. The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) that governments endorse will influence how the consensus science is understood and in turn, how it is acted upon by policymakers, investors, and the public.
Tweet: As governments meet this week to review and approve a summary of the latest findings of the IPCC regarding climate mitigation, hundreds of organizations sent a letter demanding that they focus on rapidly ending fossil fuel production and use.
