Climate change report offers risks and hope
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The recently published second part of the sixth IPCC Assessment Report (AR6) leaves little room for doubt. Written by 270 researchers from 67 countries, the report is “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” said António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general. “With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.
The recent spike in global energy prices highlights how addicted the world is to fossil fuels and the geopolitical risks inherent on relying on a few key producers.
To talk about the report and its implications for South Africa we’re joined now by Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy; Steve Nicholls, Head of Mitigation at the South African Presidential Climate Commission and Climate Change Advisor to the National Business Initiative & Olivia Rumble, director of climate consultancy climate legal and contributing author
The recent spike in global energy prices highlights how addicted the world is to fossil fuels and the geopolitical risks inherent on relying on a few key producers.
To talk about the report and its implications for South Africa we’re joined now by Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy; Steve Nicholls, Head of Mitigation at the South African Presidential Climate Commission and Climate Change Advisor to the National Business Initiative & Olivia Rumble, director of climate consultancy climate legal and contributing author
