TWN Info Service on Climate Change (Feb25/01)
7 February 2025
Third World Network

Dear friends,

Heinrich Boell Foundation and Third World Network are happy to share with you a new briefing paper on equity and climate justice in IPCC modelling:

Climate Justice and Equitable Futures: What’s missing in IPCC AR6 Scenarios and How to go Beyond
by Tejal Kanitkar and Prof. T. Jayaraman 

In the context of accelerating climate breakdown, we need the IPCC to reassess its approach for the 7th Assessment cycle (AR7), particularly with regard to equity, modelling, and mitigation pathways.

The policy brief unpacks how and why the scenarios and models of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC project climate action pathways that lead to unacceptable futures. These pathways restrict well-being for the majority of the world’s population and lead to a world with perpetual global inequalities in income, consumption, and energy use, while increasing the number of people exposed to the risk of hunger and endangering food security. The brief also demonstrates the possibility of alternate perspectives and outlines what must change in the preparation of the Seventh Assessment Report of the IPCC in order to foreground equitable futures that ensure climate justice and the well-being of all.

At the upcoming IPCC meeting in Hangzhou, China, from 24-28 February, a number of foundational decisions will be taken that will shape the scope and outcomes of AR7.

 

With kind regards,

Third World Network