The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its recent findings on climate change over Asia from the report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change at a side-event “Regional climate information: Asia” on November 9, 2021 in Glasgow.
The scientists believe the humanities activities including emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants caused the climate to warm at a rate faster than anything people have experienced in at least 2, 000 years.
The overview comprises the main changes that have been observed or are expected with further global climate change.
Participants – academics, students, NGOs and governments – learnt more about the IPCC Interactive Atlas, demonstrating how it facilitates exploration of many of the datasets used in the main assessment and also the synthesis information on climate change over Asia presented in the Summary for Policymakers and the Technical summary.
According to the report, future warming will increase extreme heat events in frequency. For example, experts expect fire weather 15 days per year in North Asia if temperature will high 1.5C°. They forecast increase of rainfall and extreme precipitation in Southeast Asia where pluvial flood will become more frequent and intensified.
The side-event “Regional climate information: Asia” took place at Central Asia Pavilion organized by CAREC in cooperation with EC IFAS and IGTIPC under financial support of the World Bank, OSCE, ERG, FAO and UNDP.
Record is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t4kYmCv4vM